Arrebato (1980) is today the ultimate cult film of Spanish cinema, and Iván Zulueta, its director, a cursed filmmaker. Arrebato was the film that anticipated the end of La Movida, a dark and raw movie whose story and meta-narrative are intimately connected. The film serves as a premonition of the filmmaker’s own life. Like its protagonists, Zulueta would ultimately be consumed by drugs and cinema, and, like them, would also vanish.
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Marta Medina del Valle is a Spanish journalist, film critic, and director. She works as a film critic for El Confidencial and has contributed to various cultural and cinema-focused outlets. Medina has also worked as a screenwriter, co-writing the film Asedio (2022).
She made her directorial debut with the documentary El último arrebato (The Last Rapture, 2025), co-directed with Enrique López Lavigne and premiered at the Sitges Film Festival. Previously, she directed the short film La turista for the Notodofilmfest. Medina combines her work as a critic with filmmaking, establishing herself as a fresh voice in contemporary Spanish cinema.
