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Cult Epics wrote:
Erosdown.com Civil war is an act of cannibalism. It is the rending of a nation’s own
flesh, the final act in a spiral of devolution towards base
subversion. It is brother vs. brother, mother vs. father. It is as
CONTACT US psychologically traumatizing as it is physically brutal and the scars
left by a civil war don’t heal clean, they arre ragged, gaping wounds
If you have a question, a
that fester and bloom. In Spain, the wounds of civil war sprouted
request or if you want to
make a contribution to this around a single tree: the Guernica Tree.
blog, please sent us an email
to: Fernando Arrabal is considered by most to be Spain’s foremost
cinemaoftheworld[at]yahoo.c
playwright and surrealist filmmaker. His work, Viva La Muerte!
om
and I Will Walk like a Crazy Horse, defined counter-culture cinema
in the 70s and inspired generations of anarchic filmmakers.
Arrabal’s work walks the fine line between inspiration and insanity.
Amos Vogel: Film as a
It is film of panic – like the theatrical movement begun, in part, by
Subversive Art
Arrabal and Mexico’s Alejandro Jodorowsky – of dissent and anger.
Dogma Films

Ethnographic Cinema Arrabal’s work has often been regarded by critics as nearly
Euro Westerns unpalatable, not because of its surrealist visions, but because of its
grotesque nature. His is a cinema born of violence, of raw anger. A
Italian Cinema Under Fascism
cinema that forces audiences into conversation with the ultimate
Kaiju-eiga depravity: war.
Mumblecore
Arrabal was a young man when his native Spain was thrown into
Nordic Noir
the convulsions of civil war. It was the Red, communist, liberal,
Philosophy on Screen
vresus the black, bourgeois, Catholic. Though only a boy at the time
Queer Cinema(s) he, like many of his surrealist compatriots, was appalled by the
Scandinavian Silent Cinema extent of the violence and the rhetoric. Unlike most of his
compatriots, however, he was circuitously involved in the combat –
Singing Cowboys
his mother, Black, betrayed his father, Red, to General Francesco
The Birth of Cinema Franco’s police. It was an act that left deep psychological wounds,
The Cannon Group an act that has played itself out insistently in Arrabal’s work.
Though Arrabal settled in Paris in the 1950s, he is a Spaniard and it
Third Reich Cinema
is to Spain, the country, like his mother, that he both loves and
Weimar Republic Cinema
despises, that his work refers.
William Shakespeare

Yugoslavian Cinema under The Guernica Tree is Arrabal’s least compromising work regarding
Tito the war. Many may find that hard to swallow given the out and out
horror of his autobiographical film Viva La Muerte! but The
Guernica Tree is a film that eschews personal vision and descends

YEAR directly into an impersonal hell.

1881-1890 The plot concerns a fictional village, Villa Romero, set in the
1891-1900 provincial backwaters of Spain. It is isolated, removed from the
progress of the world, and caught in its own “civil” strife. Villa
1901-1910
Romero is lorded over by a land baron, Count Cerralbo (Bento
1911-1920
Urago), three of whose son’s rape and pillage at will. They are
1921-1930 members of Franco’s regime, boondock desperados infatuated with
1931-1940 power and cursed with an insatiable lust for blood. Yet the fourth of
Cerralbo’s sons, Goya (American actor Ron Faber), is a surrealist
1941-1950
with a revolutionary bent. He is an anti-Catholic crusader who
1951-1960 paints obscene pictures and threatens to topple the status quo at
1961-1970 every turn.

1971-1980
When Villa ROmero falls, Goya journeys to the town of Guernica
1981-1990
where he meets and falls in love with witch, Vandale (Mariangela
1991-2000 Melato), likewise a former denizen of Villa Romero. When the
2001-2010 bombs falls of Guernica, Vandale and Goya return to Villa Romero
to rally the troops but will their revolution fail in the light of
2011-2020
Franco’s power?

The plot of The Guernica Tree plays out against images of extreme
COUNTRIES
surrealist violence. For surrealists, violence in art is an attack on

Argentina reality, the very fabric of social constructs. Violence in surrealism is

not scene specific; it is wholly metaphorical and illusory – open
Australia
entirely to interpretation. A spectacular sequence, in which a man
Austria slays five dwarves in a bull fighting ring, is a political statement of
Belgium excruciating power – the rich killing the poor, the deformed, with
the art of their class.
Brazil

Canada
The Guernica Tree is also one of Arrabal’s least seen and
China appreciated works; it has languished in obscurity since its theatrical

Croatia debut, a sad indictment of current cinema’s obsession with

mainstream film. Cult Epics is please to present The Guernica Tree,
Cuba
uncut and uncensored, for the first time in over 30 years.
Czech Republic

Denmark

Egypt

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hong Kong

Hungary

India

Iran

Ireland

Israel

Italy

Japan

Lithuania

Macedonia

Mexico

Netherlands

Norway

Philippines

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Serbia

Serbia and Montenegro

Slovakia
Cue Magazine wrote:
Slovenia
A passionate mixture of fantasy, anger and determination to
South Africa remember the incredible horrors of the Spanish Civil War…

South Korea Arrabal aims to achieve on screen what Picasso did on Canvas

Spain

Sweden

Switzerland

Taiwan

Thailand

Tunisia

Turkey

United Kingdom

USSR

Vietnam

GENRES

Action

Adventure

Animation

Arthouse

Asian

Audiobooks

Books […]
Camp This film relies more on the visuals than the performances or the
narrative to tell its tale. The colors, the sets, the cinematography are
Classics
all simultaneously grotesque, wonderful and consistently
Comedy
fascinating. Strict Catholics might be a little put off by some of the
Comics material Arrabal has filmed here to protest certain issues he has

Crime with the organized Church, and some of the violence is particularly
ugly but The Guernica Tree, underneath the shock value, is a pretty
Cult
intelligent movie that’s obviously lashing out against fascism and
Documentary oppression.
Drama […]
dvdmaniacs.net
Epic

Erotica
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Experimental

Fantasy Director Fernando Arrabal is most recognized for his surrealistic

and often controversial films. Along with Alejandro Jodorowsky he
Film Noir
founded The Panic Movement – an avant garde performance-art
Giallo collective inspired by the ideas of Antonin Artaud’s Theatre of
Horror Cruelty. The Guernica Tree is Arrabal’s bizarre and horrific retelling
of the Bombing of Guernica.
Martial Arts

Mystery
On April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War the Republican town
Musical of Guernica was bombed by planes of the German Luftwaffe under
Performance the command of General Franco, which left hundreds of casualties.
A large tree in the middle of the town was left untouched by the
Philosophy
bombs and was thereafter referred to as the “freedom tree”. Picasso
Politics also painted a famous mural titled Guernica which depicts the
Romance suffering and chaos caused by the bombing.

Sci-Fi
The Guernica Tree is set in the fictional town of Villa Romero which
Short Film
is ruled by the oppressive land baron, Count Cerralbo and his 4
Thriller sons, 3 of whom are equally as nasty and money-hungry as their
TV father and the black sheep of the family; Goya, an anarchist who is
against his father and brothers treatment of the peasant
Video Art
population. When Goya’s brothers join the fascist army to help
War overthrow the Republican government, he alternately joins the
Western rebels fight against Franco’s fascist regime. Leading the rebellion is
Vandale, the town eccentric / witch who subsequently meets and
falls in love with Goya.

RECENT COMMENTS
This film is filled with explicit and often shocking imagery, yet in
jd3302 on Josef von Sternberg turn it also has many scenes of surreal beauty. Some extremely
– Der blaue Engel aka The
blasphemous scenes include the villagers blowing up images of
Blue Angel (1930)
Christ, urinating on a porcelain figure of Jesus and a dwarf
jd3302 on Anna Karina –
smearing his cum on the lips of the Virgin Mary. In addition to the
Vivre ensemble (1973)
defilement of religious iconography there are also images of dwarf
anybody on Ziad Doueiri – crucifixion, numerous executions, acts of torture and sadism
West Beyrouth aka West
Beirut (1998)
(reminiscent of Pasolini’s Salo,) authentic footage of WWII and
Hitler addressing his troops inter-cut throughout and a striking
anybody on Suha Arin –
scene with a naked child playing innocently in a room full of
Tahtaci Fatma AKA Fatma of
the Forest [+Extra] (1979) human skulls.

anybody on Miguel Gomes –

As Mil e Uma Noites: Volume
3, O Encantado AKA Arabian
Nights: Volume 3, The
Enchanted One (2015)
Although beyond all the violence there are often blackly humorous
depictions of political and social satire, as in the scene where two
government officials passionately French kiss each other, or the
lengthy “bullfight” where a Matador butchers helpless midgets
dressed as bull’s for the entertainment of the socially elite.

RECENT RECEIVED THANKS

Overall this is an excellent example of pointed surrealism and

Jörn Donner - Perkele! Kuvia satire that examines the horrors of war and uncompromisingly
Suomesta aka Fuck Off! - assaults the senses via images of pure chaos and grotesquerie.
Images of Finland (1971) (5) Highly recommended to people who dig fringe / Art-house cinema
Sidney Lumet - Long Day's
and fans of Jodorowsky and Bunuel’s work.
Journey Into Night (1962) (9)
Chaitanya Tamhane - Court dvdholocaust.com
(2014) (55)
Bruce LaBruce - The
Raspberry Reich (2004) (20)
Ziad Doueiri - L'insulte AKA
The Insult (2017) (6)
Agnès Varda - Plaisir d'amour
en Iran AKA The Pleasure of
Love in Iran (1976) (10)
Argyris Papadimitropoulos -
Suntan (2016) (13)
Lucrecia Martel - Zama (2017)
(17)
Satyajit Ray - Pather Panchali
(1955) (136)

Extras: “Arrabal wanders around Hollywood” (dvdmaniacs.net)

http://nitroflare.com/view/37E129F7B56212B/L_Arbre.de.Guernica.1
975.DVDRip.XviD-OwL.avi
http://nitroflare.com/view/013BE324A911484/L_Arbre.de.Guernica.1
975.DVDRip.XviD-OwL.ENG.srt
http://nitroflare.com/view/B3F070D8935E808/Arrabal_in_Hollywood
.avi
http://nitroflare.com/view/5FAA96FC3C763C3/Arrabal_in_Hollywoo
d.ENG.srt

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 April 17, 2012  Anybody  1971-1980, Drama, Fernando Arrabal, Spain

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