Adolfo Arrieta

Adolfo Arrieta

Nacimiento : 1942-08-28, Madrid, Spain

Historia

Adolfo González Arrieta 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. He usually uses 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 El crimen de la pirindola (1965) and Imitación del ángel (1966) both shot in Madrid, a milestone for independent cinema in Spain. He 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 he 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 he had been a former lover. With Marais Arrieta would shot his first feature film, Le Jouet criminel (1969), that was compared to Cocteau's cinema for his poetic nature. With Le Château de Pointilly (1972), he would receive critical praise from Marguerite Duras. He 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. He 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 Delirios de amor, 1989), Merlín (1990) and Narciso (2004). His next film, Vacanza permanente (2006), was awarded at the Lucca International Film Festival, and meant for Arrieta a creative rebirth. It was premiered in Madrid at La Casa Encendida de Madrid on May 27 2007, during the polipoetry festival Yuxtaposiciones, and presented by the writer Leopoldo Alas. In March 2008 the venue La Enana Marrón in Madrid held a partial retrospective of Arrieta's filmography, screening his most outstanding works.

Perfil

Adolfo Arrieta

Películas

El trío en mi bemol
Paul y Adèle fueron amantes y se separaron pero siguen siendo buenos amigos, un año después todo parece alejarlos. La clave de Mi bemol puede ser la clave de la verdadera amistad, pero es Mozart quien los separa...
Bella Durmiente
Editor
En el reino de Letonia, el joven príncipe Egon pasa sus noches tocando la batería. De día, sólo una idea ronda su cabeza: internarse en el reino de Kentz para encontrar a la Bella Durmiente y romper el hechizo. Pero su padre, el rey, incrédulo de las leyendas, se opone totalmente.
Bella Durmiente
Writer
En el reino de Letonia, el joven príncipe Egon pasa sus noches tocando la batería. De día, sólo una idea ronda su cabeza: internarse en el reino de Kentz para encontrar a la Bella Durmiente y romper el hechizo. Pero su padre, el rey, incrédulo de las leyendas, se opone totalmente.
Bella Durmiente
Director
En el reino de Letonia, el joven príncipe Egon pasa sus noches tocando la batería. De día, sólo una idea ronda su cabeza: internarse en el reino de Kentz para encontrar a la Bella Durmiente y romper el hechizo. Pero su padre, el rey, incrédulo de las leyendas, se opone totalmente.
L'imprésario
In the fall of 2010, Bozon and co-conspirator Pascale Bodet commandeered the first floor of Paris’s famed Centre Pompidou for 10 days of screenings, lectures and performances that amounted to a counter-canonical history of French cinema. During the ensuing merriment (entitled Beaubourg, la dernière Major !) audience members were invited to observe the daily making of this film, directed by Bozon and written by Axelle Ropert, about an inexperienced young journalist (Laure Marsac) sent to the Pompidou to interview a maverick artistic impresario (Thomas Chabrol). The result is an unexpected love story that is also a record of this landmark exhibition, featuring cameos by Raul Ruiz, Paul Vecchiali, Luc Moullet and more !
Fragmentos para una historia del otro cine español
Un recorrido por la historia del cine español menos convencional.
Dry Martini
Director
Tribute to Luis Bunuel's passion for drinking cocktails.
Vacanza permanente
Director
In his latest video essay Vacanza Permanente, Arrietta discovers and enthusiastically embraces digital editing at home.
Eco y Narciso
Director
In a garden at the party of the God Bacchus, Narciso's presence is the highlight of the party. Both gods and mortals seek his favors without getting anywhere.
Merlín
Director
Merlin, shot on 35mm, is an adaptation of Cocteau's play "Knights of the Round Table."
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
Self
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Frogs
Director
On an island in the middle of the ocean, inhabited by men and women-frogs, Nora, a beautiful Russian spy, wants revenge for the betrayal of her lover, the artist Tibor.
Cinématon VI
N°50
Reel 6 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
Flames
Editor
Barbara, a young girl, lives in an old country house with her father and her teacher. One night, she dreams that a fireman enters her room through the window. Having grown, Barbara leaves her father to travel across the world, before coming back to her childhood fantasies: one day, she calls the firemen, and locks herself with one of them in her bedroom.
Flames
Writer
Barbara, a young girl, lives in an old country house with her father and her teacher. One night, she dreams that a fireman enters her room through the window. Having grown, Barbara leaves her father to travel across the world, before coming back to her childhood fantasies: one day, she calls the firemen, and locks herself with one of them in her bedroom.
Flames
Director
Barbara, a young girl, lives in an old country house with her father and her teacher. One night, she dreams that a fireman enters her room through the window. Having grown, Barbara leaves her father to travel across the world, before coming back to her childhood fantasies: one day, she calls the firemen, and locks herself with one of them in her bedroom.
Tam Tam
Screenplay
Un grupo de intelectuales totalmente desorientados aprovechan la llegada de un amigo para preparar una fiesta. Un retrato de los adeptos de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, que no pretende agradar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Tam Tam
Director
Un grupo de intelectuales totalmente desorientados aprovechan la llegada de un amigo para preparar una fiesta. Un retrato de los adeptos de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, que no pretende agradar. (FILMAFFINITY)
Las intrigas de Sylvia Couski
Director
El tercer largometraje de Adolfo Arrieta , está protagonizado por el afamado transexual francés y miembro fundador del FHAR (Frente Homosexual para la Acción Revolucionaria), Marie-France, y es considerada como la primera película underground parisina. La trama gira en torno a la ex esposa de un famoso escultor que convence a su amante para que retire un trabajo de su ex marido y lo reemplace con un modelo en vivo.
Le Château de Pointilly
Director of Photography
Trata sobre la idea de la permisión, de que el padre lo permite todo, excepto una cosa; hay un tabú que es Pointilly. Pero al final resulta que incluso la desobediencia está organizada por el padre. En eso consiste la rebeldía de la protagonista. Y no se sabe si llega a ser rebeldía o no porque en realidad a ella le encanta su padre, está enamorada de él.
Le Château de Pointilly
Producer
Trata sobre la idea de la permisión, de que el padre lo permite todo, excepto una cosa; hay un tabú que es Pointilly. Pero al final resulta que incluso la desobediencia está organizada por el padre. En eso consiste la rebeldía de la protagonista. Y no se sabe si llega a ser rebeldía o no porque en realidad a ella le encanta su padre, está enamorada de él.
Le Château de Pointilly
Editor
Trata sobre la idea de la permisión, de que el padre lo permite todo, excepto una cosa; hay un tabú que es Pointilly. Pero al final resulta que incluso la desobediencia está organizada por el padre. En eso consiste la rebeldía de la protagonista. Y no se sabe si llega a ser rebeldía o no porque en realidad a ella le encanta su padre, está enamorada de él.
Le Château de Pointilly
Writer
Trata sobre la idea de la permisión, de que el padre lo permite todo, excepto una cosa; hay un tabú que es Pointilly. Pero al final resulta que incluso la desobediencia está organizada por el padre. En eso consiste la rebeldía de la protagonista. Y no se sabe si llega a ser rebeldía o no porque en realidad a ella le encanta su padre, está enamorada de él.
Le Château de Pointilly
Director
Trata sobre la idea de la permisión, de que el padre lo permite todo, excepto una cosa; hay un tabú que es Pointilly. Pero al final resulta que incluso la desobediencia está organizada por el padre. En eso consiste la rebeldía de la protagonista. Y no se sabe si llega a ser rebeldía o no porque en realidad a ella le encanta su padre, está enamorada de él.
Numéro zéro
Director of Photography
A family portrait in which the director profiles his grandmother, Odette Robert. Eustache includes in the film the conditions of its production — he is seated at the table with her, pours her some whiskey, speaks with the camera operator, manipulates the clapboard at the head and tail of the reels, and even takes a phone call. Robert, who was seventy-one, speaks rapidly and tells the story of her life, starting from her early childhood in villages in the Bordeaux region of France. A shorter version of the film ("Odette Robert") was edited in 1980 to be broadcast on television on TF1. The complete film only gained exposure in 2002, when it was salvaged by Boris Eustache, Thierry Lounas, João Bénard da Costa, Jean-Marie Straub, and Pedro Costa.
Le Jouet criminel
Director of Photography
A couple abducts an "angel" for their entertainment, who will escape with the help of an old man.
Le Jouet criminel
Production Design
A couple abducts an "angel" for their entertainment, who will escape with the help of an old man.
Le Jouet criminel
Producer
A couple abducts an "angel" for their entertainment, who will escape with the help of an old man.
Le Jouet criminel
Editor
A couple abducts an "angel" for their entertainment, who will escape with the help of an old man.
Le Jouet criminel
Writer
A couple abducts an "angel" for their entertainment, who will escape with the help of an old man.
Le Jouet criminel
Director
A couple abducts an "angel" for their entertainment, who will escape with the help of an old man.
La imitación del ángel
Writer
Cine experimental surrealista en el que los ángeles toman parte en un asesinato.
La imitación del ángel
Director
Cine experimental surrealista en el que los ángeles toman parte en un asesinato.
El crimen de la pirindola
A young boy plays with a top instead of doing his homework and daydreams about his brother and his brother's girlfriend.
El crimen de la pirindola
Writer
A young boy plays with a top instead of doing his homework and daydreams about his brother and his brother's girlfriend.
El crimen de la pirindola
Director
A young boy plays with a top instead of doing his homework and daydreams about his brother and his brother's girlfriend.