La trilogía del ángel / The Angel Trilogy (1965-1969)
A Films by Adolfo Arrieta
DVD5 | ISO | PAL 4:3 (720x576) | Total: 76 mins | 2,41 Gb
Audio: Spanish or French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: French or Spanish, English
Genre: Drama | Spain
A Films by Adolfo Arrieta
DVD5 | ISO | PAL 4:3 (720x576) | Total: 76 mins | 2,41 Gb
Audio: Spanish or French AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: French or Spanish, English
Genre: Drama | Spain
An angel watching over a boy. This angel with these wings, that Méliès could have invented, will never leave Arrietta's films. As if it had become his guardian angel, watching over his preserved childhood, a smile haunting his cruelest films…Emile Breton
Films List:
El crimen de la pirindola (18:21) - IMDB - Spanish audio with French and English subtitles
La imitación del ángel (21:10) - IMDB - Spanish audio with French and English subtitles
Le jouet criminel (36:28) - IMDB - French audio with Spanish and English subtitles
Arrietta scrutinizes and stalks the people he freezes on celluloid in the manner of filmmakers like Jacques Rivette, Jean Eustache and Jacques Rozier, yet, at the same time, he instills an atmosphere of fantasy reminiscent of Jean Cocteau. This symbiosis, rarely faulted, produces very beneficial effects.Gérard Courant
A young Spaniard outside of every system, of every small group, of every influence, records on 16mm (since for him, cinema cannot be an occupation) the quiet heartbreaking delusions that express, better than if he had prepared indictments, the state of mind of a generation for whom poetry today is the only refuge and the only practicable fight…Jean-André Fieschi, Cahiers du Cinéma, 1964
Un ange surveille le garçon. Cet ange et ses ailes, que Méliès aurait pu inventer, ne quitteront plus guère les films d'Arrietta.
Comme s'il était devenu son ange tutélaire, celui qui veille sur son enfance préservée, un sourire qui hante ses films les plus cruels…Emile Breton
No More Mirrors.