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Fernando Arrabal is a Actor, Director and Scriptwriter French born on 11 august 1932 at Melilla (Espagne)
Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. Arrabal was born in Melilla, Spain, but settled in France in 1955; he describes himself as “desterrado”, or “half-expatriate, half-exiled”.
Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films; he has published over 100 plays, 14 novels, 800 poetry collections, chapbooks, and artist’s books; several essays, and his notorious “Letter to General Franco” during the dictator’s lifetime. His complete plays have been published in a number of languages, in a two-volume edition totaling over two thousand pages. The New York Times theatre critic Mel Gussow has called Arrabal the last survivor among the “three avatars of modernism”.
In 1962 Arrabal co-founded the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor, inspired by the god Pan, and was elected Transcendent Satrap of the Collège de Pataphysique in 1990. Forty other Transcendent Satraps have been elected over the past half-century, including Marcel Duchamp, Eugène Ionesco, Man Ray, Boris Vian, Dario Fo, Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard.
A friend of Andy Warhol and Tristan Tzara, Arrabal spent three years as a member of André Breton’s surrealist group.
‘’Arrabal’s theatre is a wild, brutal, cacophonous, and joyously provocative world. It is a dramatic carnival in which the carcass of our “advanced” civilizations is barbecued over the spits of a permanent revolution. He is the artistic heir of Kafka’s lucidity and Jarry’s humor; in his violence, Arrabal is related to Sade and Artaud. Yet he is doubtless the only writer to have pushed derision as far as he did. Deeply political and merrily playful, both revolutionary and bohemian, his work is the syndrome of our century of barbed wire and Gulags, a manner of finding a reprieve.’’
The Dictionary of Literatures in the French Language (Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française; Éditions Bordas.)
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Fernando Arrabal
Birth name Fernando Arrabal Terán
Nationality France
Birth 11 august 1932 (91 years) at Melilla (Espagne)
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Premio Nadal
Nationality France
Birth 11 august 1932 (91 years) at Melilla (Espagne)
Awards Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur, Premio Nadal
Arrabal has directed seven full-length feature films; he has published over 100 plays, 14 novels, 800 poetry collections, chapbooks, and artist’s books; several essays, and his notorious “Letter to General Franco” during the dictator’s lifetime. His complete plays have been published in a number of languages, in a two-volume edition totaling over two thousand pages. The New York Times theatre critic Mel Gussow has called Arrabal the last survivor among the “three avatars of modernism”.
In 1962 Arrabal co-founded the Panic Movement with Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor, inspired by the god Pan, and was elected Transcendent Satrap of the Collège de Pataphysique in 1990. Forty other Transcendent Satraps have been elected over the past half-century, including Marcel Duchamp, Eugène Ionesco, Man Ray, Boris Vian, Dario Fo, Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard.
A friend of Andy Warhol and Tristan Tzara, Arrabal spent three years as a member of André Breton’s surrealist group.
‘’Arrabal’s theatre is a wild, brutal, cacophonous, and joyously provocative world. It is a dramatic carnival in which the carcass of our “advanced” civilizations is barbecued over the spits of a permanent revolution. He is the artistic heir of Kafka’s lucidity and Jarry’s humor; in his violence, Arrabal is related to Sade and Artaud. Yet he is doubtless the only writer to have pushed derision as far as he did. Deeply political and merrily playful, both revolutionary and bohemian, his work is the syndrome of our century of barbed wire and Gulags, a manner of finding a reprieve.’’
The Dictionary of Literatures in the French Language (Dictionnaire des littératures de langue française; Éditions Bordas.)
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La Traversée du désir (2009)
, 1h11Directed by Arielle Dombasle
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Arielle Dombasle, Michel Houellebecq, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi, Fernando Arrabal
Roles Self
Rating63%
La Traversée du désir est un film documentaire réalisé par Arielle Dombasle. Caméra au poing, elle a, entre 2001 et 20092, posé singulièrement la même question à bon nombre de personnalités qu'elle a pu croiser : « Quel a été votre premier désir ? ». Le titre est un clin d'œil à l'expression « Traversée du désert ».
Avida (2006)
, 1h23Directed by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, Albert Dupontel, Éric Martin, Mathieu Kassovitz, Velvet d'Amour
Roles Le Picador suicidaire
Rating56%
À la suite du décès accidentel de son employeur, un sourd-muet se retrouve embarqué par deux toxicomanes dans un étrange trafic d'animaux. L'échec de l'enlèvement du chien d'une milliardaire obèse et suicidaire va les lier à elle. Elle en profitera pour les forcer à réaliser ses dernières volontés.
The Jodorowsky Constellation (1994)
, 1h31Directed by Louis Mouchet
Origin Suisse
Genres Documentary
Actors Alejandro Jodorowsky, Peter Gabriel, Marcel Marceau, Jean Giraud, Fernando Arrabal, Louis Mouchet
Roles Self
Rating66%
L'auteur part en quête de l'« artiste total » qu’est Alejandro Jodorowsky : tour à tour cinéaste, écrivain, metteur en scène de théâtre, auteur de bandes dessinées, mime, montreur de marionnettes, psycho-magicien, découvreur empirique de la psychogénéalogie (qu'il nommera plus tard la "métagénéalogie"), clown... Ces multiples facettes forment, selon Louis Mouchet, un tout cohérent.
Jour Sa Vie (1982)
, 1h20Directed by Gilles Carle
Origin Canada
Genres Documentary
Themes Jeu, Sports films, Films about chess
Actors Fernando Arrabal
Roles Self
Rating67%
Le film décrit les personnalités et les stratégies de Bobby Fischer, Viktor Kortchnoï, Anatoli Karpov et d'autres champions d'échecs.
The Hamburg Syndrome (1979)
, 1h57Directed by Peter Fleischmann
Origin France
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Horror
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about viral outbreaks, Disaster films
Actors Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal, Tilo Prückner, Evelyn Künneke, Rosel Zech, Leopold Hainisch
Roles Ottakar
Rating59%
Une maladie inconnue se déclare dans le port de Hambourg, et s'étend bientot au monde entier. Les gens meurent subitement et se recroquevillent en position foetale. Sebastian, un médecin gérontologue, Ulrike, une jeune fille et Heribert fuient la quarantaine imposée par les autorités médicales qui restent impuissantes face au fléau. Sebastian succombe tandis qu'Ulrike parvient à s'enfuir en haut d'une montagne. Mais des hommes en combinaison blanche viennent l'emporter...
Cinématon (1978)
Directed by Gérard Courant
Genres Documentary
Actors Fernando Arrabal, Raphaël Bassan, Yann Beauvais, Roberto Benigni, Juliet Berto, Sandrine Bonnaire
Roles N°442
Rating60%
Cinématon est une série cinématographique de portraits filmés montrant une personnalité des arts, de la culture ou du spectacle, en un seul gros plan fixe et muet de 3 minutes et demie, dans lesquels elle est libre de faire ce qu'elle veut.
Long Live Death (1971)
, 1h30Directed by Fernando Arrabal
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about children, Political films
Actors Anouk Ferjac, Fernando Arrabal
Rating65%
When Fando's fascist-sympathizing mother turns his father into the authorities as a suspected communist, Fando (Mahdi Chaouch) is told that his father was executed. In truth the father is actually just imprisoned and eventually begins to search for him, constantly imagining what his father might be up to or what might have happened to him.
Trap (1970)
, 58minutesDirected by Jacques Baratier
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Crime
Actors Bernadette Lafont, Bulle Ogier, Jean-Baptiste Thierrée, Fernando Arrabal, Jackie Raynal
Roles Le vendeur de pièges
Rating59%
Arsène, jeune homme solitaire et inquiet, atteint de la maladie de la persécution, tente de se protéger des voleurs – sinon de lui-même – en posant des pièges chez lui. Il assiste impuissant à l’effraction puis à la mise à sac de sa maison par un couple de jeunes filles cleptomanes qu’il a délibérément attirées chez lui. Fasciné par elles, il devient au cours de la nuit son propre bourreau et le jouet de fantasmes régressifs infantiles et autodestructeurs à l’issue irréversible. Ainsi s’accomplit la prédiction initiale du vendeur de pièges qui avait diagnostiqué sa « peur d’être volé ».
The Big Ceremonial (1969)
Directed by Pierre-Alain Jolivet
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ginette Leclerc, Michel Tureau, Fernando Arrabal, Roger Lumont
Roles Le vendeur de lingerie
Rating57%
Casanova est un jeune homme vivant avec sa mère qui le tient sous son emprise protectrice. Un jour, il rencontre Syl, une jeune voleuse avec qui il commence à entretenir une relation très étrange. Il lui fait croire qu'il a tué sa mère et qu'il prend plaisir à tuer une femme par nuit...
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? (1966)
, 1h42Directed by Alain Franchet, William Klein
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Dorothy McGowan, Grayson Hall, Philippe Noiret, Jean Rochefort, Sami Frey, Alice Sapritch
Roles L'homme au savon à barbe
Rating67%
L'intrigue se partage entre le monde de la publicité, de la mode et de l'ORTF et un royaume d'opérette, dont le prince héritier (Sami Frey) s'éprend du mannequin Polly Maggoo (Dorothy McGowan), alors que la jeune femme fait l'objet d'un reportage télévisé.
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Car Cemetery (1983)
, 1h30Directed by Fernando Arrabal
Origin France
Genres Science fiction
Themes Post-apocalyptic films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Alain Bashung, Juliet Berto, Micha Bayard, Roland Amstutz, Dominique Collignon-Maurin, Boris Bergman
Rating58%
Le film est une adaptation de la pièce écrite par Arrabal en 1958. À la lisière d'un cratère creusé par l'explosion d'une bombe atomique, une population très variée survit dans un cimetière de voitures. Tous les individus sont recherchés par la police et particulièrement l'un d'eux : Emanou. Au cours d'un concert interdit et très attendu de tous, Emanou sera trahi par l'un des siens.
The Emperor of Peru (1982)
, 1h21Directed by Fernando Arrabal
Origin Canada
Genres Comedy, Adventure
Actors Mickey Rooney, Monique Mercure, Jean-Louis Roux, Guy Hoffmann, Jean-Pierre Saulnier, Vlasta Vrána
Rating54%
Un ingénieur ferroviaire fantasque, qui hante une ancienne gare et se surnomme « Empereur du Pérou », enchante les vacances de trois gamins.
The Tree of Guernica (1975)
, 1h50Directed by Fernando Arrabal
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Actors Mariangela Melato, Franco Ressel, Mario Novelli
Rating65%
La guerre civile provoque différentes réactions dans la petite cité espagnole de Villa Ramiro : l’enseignant Antonio Garcia, sans prendre parti, insuffle ses idées pacifistes à ses élèves, le comte et ses trois fils fascistes s’adonnent au pillage tandis que Goya, le quatrième fils, décide de lutter pour la république comme Vandale, la passionaria locale…
, 1h40Directed by Fernando Arrabal
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Emmanuelle Riva, Marco Perrin, Arlette Thomas, Raoul Curet, Luc Guérin, Antoine Marin
Rating67%
After the death of his mother (Emmanuelle Riva), the epileptic Aden Rey (George Shannon) flees to the desert in order to avoid any police questioning, as they believe that he was responsible for his mother's death. It is in there that Aden meets the savage yet noble Marvel (Hachemi Marzouk). While the two men bond over their travels, Aden tries to convince Marvel that civilization is much more desirable than the wilderness, although Marvel appears to disagree. During all of this the police continue their relentless pursuit of Aden.
Long Live Death (1971)
, 1h30Directed by Fernando Arrabal
Origin France
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about children, Political films
Actors Anouk Ferjac, Fernando Arrabal
Rating65%
When Fando's fascist-sympathizing mother turns his father into the authorities as a suspected communist, Fando (Mahdi Chaouch) is told that his father was executed. In truth the father is actually just imprisoned and eventually begins to search for him, constantly imagining what his father might be up to or what might have happened to him.