"This is imperative viewing for any people interested in surrealism in film. I can't recommend it enough." -CHAOTIC CINEMA

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BE WARNED!

We just wanted to warn you that this film is not for the faint-hearted! Here is what a great reviewer wrote on the website Monsters At Play:

"It's pretty important that you know just what's in store for you, so be warned. If you are easily offended (or perplexed for that matter) then Arrabal's world is most certainly not for you. However if you consider yourself to be cinematically courageous (and extremely open minded), then I dare you to take a look at what I have just witnessed. I can easily say that this film is so good, it hurts."

We agree with him.

THE PLOT

This film is hard to sum-up, and needs to be experienced really…however, here is a bit of info about the "plot":

The film follows two men, Aden and Marvel. Aden is sought by the police and on the run after the death of his mother, when he meets the appropriately named Marvel, a mystical loner who lives in the desert with his goat. One of his Marvel's skills is turning day immediately into night (and vice versa) with the click off his thumbs. Aden falls in love with Marvel, and decides to show him the big city. This is where Arrabal shows us the chaos of humanity. Many memorable images ensue, including cannibalism, torture, and quite a lot of blood…

REVIEWS

"Another masterly piece of cinematic surrealism from Fernando Arrabal" - CHAOTIC CINEMA

"Completely off the wall and full of brilliant absurdity, I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse has enough bizarre religious imagery to make a nun's head spin in disgust." - MONSTERS AT PLAY

THE PANIC MOVEMENT

The director, Fernando Arrabal, was a founding member of the Panic Movement (Mouvement Panique) alongside Alejandro Jodorowsky and Roland Topor. The movement was formed in Paris in 1962.

Inspired by and named after the god Pan, and influenced by Luis Buñuel and Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty, the group concentrated on chaotic and surreal performance art, as a response to surrealism becoming mainstream.

The movement's violent theatrical events were designed to be shocking, and to release destructive energies in search of peace and beauty. 

Folloing some theatrical performances, Arrabal and Jodorowsky later started to work  on film. Arrabal made Viva la muerte (1971) and I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1973), while Jodorowsky achieved even more fame with Fando y Lis (1967), El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973). Jodorowsky dissolved the Panic Movement in 1973, after the release of Arrabal's book Le panique.

A FEW FACTS ABOUT THE DIRECTOR: FERNANDO ARRABAL

Here are a few facts:

- Fernando Arrabal is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet

- He was born in 1932 in Spain 

- He has been living in France since 1955

- He's made 7 films: Viva La Muerte (1970), I Will Walk Like a Crazy Horse (1972), The Guernica Tree (1975), Pacific Odyssey (1980), The Automobile Graveyard (1981), Farewell Babylon (1992), Borges, A Life in Poetry (1998)

“I prefer Arrabal to Fellini or Ingmar Bergman… he is to cinema what Rimbaud is to poetry.” - Raymond-Léopold Bruckberger, LE MONDE

“Arrabal is ferociously original”  - John Parrack, ROLLING STONE

This is Arrabal's website if you want to check it out: http://www.arrabal.org/

TICKETS

On the door: £5 / £3.50 (conc)

ADVANCE TICKETS ONLINE: £4.50 / £3 (concessions) here: http://www.wegottickets.com/event/209332