Viva la muerte
During Spanish Civil War, young Fando navigates parents' clashing ideologies after father's arrest. Explores his imagination, friendships, views on sex and death amid family upheaval. Questions mother, seeks father's fate.
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"Viva la Muerte begins with the credits over a view of surreal Roland Topor images while a pleasant tune plays. The film's central figure is a young boy named Fando, who lives with his mother. His father has been arrested during the Spanish Civil War. Fando later finds a letter and discovers his mother turned his father in to the authorities. This triggers off the many fantasy sequences of Fando. Arrabal uses grainy filtered footage during these sequences and gives them several different colours. The film is full of frenzy. It was created by someone with a furious imagination. The bull sla..."
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In 1981 Núria Espert recalled the infamous slaughterhouse scene: "It was shot in Viserta, a city in the north of Tunisia. They were going to kill some animals that day; we put a camera in front of them and filmed. Before filming, Arrabal told me what the scene meant and we started filming like a happening. A happening is something that only happens once, it is a theatrical representation that cannot be repeated, because it is based on emotions. "I took out the knife like an actress, I had in mind what Arrabal had spoken to me about and, on the other hand, there was the connection between Nuria the actress and Nuria the person. Then came the unpredictability brought by those thousands of litres of blood and shit. To the point that my body was totally and absolutely out of control. So much so that I felt that I had gone further than I have ever gone before. The musicians of the orchestra, fainted around me, as if we were going to die. Nobody died; we bathed and something else."
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During Spanish Civil War, young Fando navigates parents' clashing ideologies after father's arrest. Explores his imagination, friendships, views on sex and death amid family upheaval. Questions mother, seeks father's fate.