I know I’ve been banging on about Spanish cinema a lot recently, but I do live here, and you (probably) don’t. I also work with this guy who hardly says anything, but if you so much as mention the title of an obscure movie he’ll bring in the DVD the next day. Arrebato won prizes in upon its release in 1979 and is today considered a national treasure. Which says an awful lot about the spirit of the times it was made in.

Nobody’s really sure what it’s about (could be anything from a coming of age drama to an apology for the disappeared of the civil war) but it roughly tells the story of a fast living film director and his relationship with a 27 year old baudelarian figure who’s obsessed with film.

Narrative and storyline are by the by though. In its descriptions of late 70′s spanish delincuency and its casual heroin use, it’s a great document of the period. And the Super 8 secuences are breathtaking.