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Viva la Muerte
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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0063390010134
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Cav Distribution
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Cav Distribution
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Cav Distribution
Release Date: October 29, 2002
Running Time: 87 minutes
Studio: Cav Distribution
Theatrical Release Date: 1971
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Rating: - Outstanding Surrealism
"Viva la Muerte" (Long Live Death - 1970) is the first and best film by Spanish surrealist, Fernando Arrabal. It's an unusual aesthetic experience (even by surrealist standard), but an aesthetic experience worth having. If you've heard of the film before, chances are it was described similar to the Amos Vogel (author of the amazing "Film as a Subversive Art"), "Viva la Muerte is a paroxysm of anguish, a scream for liberty and probably one of the most ferocious, violent films ever made." I was expecting ... Read More
Rating: - the diffinitive surrealist masterwork of the 70's
A must see for any lover of surrealist movies. Viva La Muerte along with The Holy Mountain and El Topo are the 70's surrealist Masterpieces (panic movement). Not for the faint hearted!!!
Rating: - Great Works of Art Turn Up in the Strangest Places
When I first saw Viva La Muerte I was 21 and living in Melbourne, Australia. It ran for two months at weekend midnight screenings, and I've never been more impressed by a film. This is most definitely an art movie, and its mere existence makes most "art" movies turn into television commercials for the brainless masses. It is set in the spanish civil war, but it could be Iraq, Afghanistan or Bosnia or wherever the next war is engineered. It concerns a family torn apart by war. The mother has reported ... Read More
Rating: - the spirit of surrealism and panic juxtaposition
A film that quivers on the fringe, the fringe of ideas, of intuitive mysticism, as it probes into the artifices of intelectual snobery. It is playful, it is violent and disquieting, it touches and transforms conventions, in what has now become a classical preconception of surrealism
-That is: yes, in some aspects the film is outdated, since it is in fact a response to the time in which it was created - but as anything with actual content, it is, timeless. Though maybe not timeless for everyone.
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Rating: - Be Forwarned!!
If you can't stomach real animal torture and real bloodletting then read no further. If you can remember this is a movie about atrocities so its not entirely inappropriate to have moments of the theater of cruetly. The "plot" if you can call it that concerns a young boy growing up in fascist Spain and it is a shocking, horrifying indictment of that era. Remember this film was made when Franco was alive and well albeit in France, not Spain who, however, promptly banned this film. This was a pleasent surprise ... Read More
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