Adolfo Arrieta was born in 1942 in Madrid, Spain. Adolfo González Arrieta (b. in Madrid, August 28, 1942) is a spanish filmmaker, considered as the pioneer of independent film both in Spain and France, due to the artisan quality and the ... (Full Biography Below)
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Adolfo Arrieta was born in 1942 in Madrid, Spain. Adolfo González Arrieta (b. in Madrid, August 28, 1942) is a spanish filmmaker, considered as the pioneer of independent film both in Spain and France, due to the artisan quality and the unique spirit of freedom of his films. I usually use variations of his name in the credits of his films, such as Udolfo Arrieta, Alfo Arrieta or Adolpho Arrieta. His cinematic language is very poetic, apart from narrative conventions, which has made it to be compared with the cinema of Jean Cocteau. Having started as a painter, Arrieta began his filmmaking with the short films The crime of the pirindola (1965) and Imitation of the angel (1966) both shot in Madrid, a milestone for independet cinema in Spain. I moved to Paris in 1967 with Javier Grandes, an usual actor in most of his films, where he would live through the events of May 1968. In 1969 I met Jean Marais, leading actor in La Belle et la Bête (1945), Orphée (1949) and Le testament d ' Orphée (1959) by Jean Cocteau, of whom I ad been a former lover. With the Marais, Arrieta would've shot his first feature film, Le jouet criminal (1969), that was compared to Cocteau's cinema for his poetic nature. With Le château de Pointilly (1972), I would receive critical praise from Marguerite Duras. I have won the Great Prize at the Toulon Film Festival with Les intrigues de Sylvia Couski (1974), acclaimed by the critics and considered as the first underground parisian film. I would follow with Tam Tam (1976), the record of an uninterrupted party between New York, Paris and Spain; and Flammes (1978), a story about a sexual childhood fantasy turning into a real passion in the adulthood. In the following years he would make Grenouilles (1983), Kiki, la gata (episode of the TV series Delusions of love, 1989), Merlin (1990) and Narciso (2004). His next to last film Vacanza permanente (2006), was awarded at the Lucca International Film Festival, and meant for Arrieta to creative rebirth. It was premiered in Madrid at La Casa Encendida of Madrid, on May 27 2007, during the polipoetry festival Juxtapositions, and presented by the writer Leopoldo Alas. In March 2008 the venue The Brown Dwarf in Madrid held a partial retrospective of Arrieta's filmography, screening his most outstanding works. French publisher re:voir and Spanish Intermediate have released a DVD pack containing his complete works to date.
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