Axel Jodorowsky

À la suite d'un drame familial, Fenix, petit mime d'un cirque de Mexico, est enfermé dans un hôpital psychiatrique. Huit ans plus tard, il retrouve sa mère. Le cirque n'existant plus, ils errent dans la ville, représentant une pantomime qui se prolonge tragiquement dans leur vie quotidienne, pour le grand malheur de Fenix.

« M'étant séparé de mon moi illusoire, j'ai cherché désespérément un sentier et un sens pour la vie. » Cette phrase définit parfaitement le projet biographique d'Alexandro Jodorowsky : restituer l'incroyable aventure et quête que fut sa vie. Le film est un exercice d’autobiographie imaginaire. Né au Chili en 1929, dans la petite ville de Tocopilla, où le film a été tourné, Alejandro Jodorowsky fut confronté à une éducation très dure et violente, au sein d’une famille déracinée. Bien que les faits et les personnages soient réels, la fiction dépasse la réalité dans un univers poétique où le réalisateur réinvente sa famille et notamment le parcours de son père jusqu’à la rédemption, réconciliation d’un homme et de son enfance.

When an opera singer loses her voice, her husband embarks on an odyssey through different underworlds to recover it through supernatural means.

Three episodes: 1) "A Christmas dinner" where the family members fantasize about being somewhere else. The fetishist father wants to put on feminine clothes. The son longs for another transvestite adventure. The daughter yearns to be a singer and destroy the saints of the church with her voice. The youngest son wants to stab everyone dead. 2) "Game of mirrors". Two young classmates kiss on a picnic, but the girl's brother accuses the couple of being immoral. Bizarre things develop. 3) "Tetrahedron". A very fat man faces his girlfriend's longing for love.

Ninón, singer, decides to escape from her frustrated love life, and leaves in search of an old love, finding on the way Alberto, who is on the run from the police

On stormy night in an ugly urban landscape, Ciro Norte, a scientist with wild hair and thick glasses, straps himself to a chair he's has fashioned with wires: lightening strikes, convulsing him. It seems his experiment has not worked. The next day, he drives his jalopy to a bar, sits alone, and weeps. But suddenly, a vortex sucks him into a dream state where he wanders, escapes man-eating fish, confronts his doppelganger, walks through a field of giant flowers, and comes upon Venus herself, buried up to her shoulders in sand. She is a giant, and she takes him to her breast. He wakes from the vortex, back in the bar, his mood transformed.

After his dream project DUNE fell apart, visionary filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky took a break from cinema, only to return over a decade later with his most triumphant work: SANTA SANGRE.

On stormy night in an ugly urban landscape, Ciro Norte, a scientist with wild hair and thick glasses, straps himself to a chair he's has fashioned with wires: lightening strikes, convulsing him. It seems his experiment has not worked. The next day, he drives his jalopy to a bar, sits alone, and weeps. But suddenly, a vortex sucks him into a dream state where he wanders, escapes man-eating fish, confronts his doppelganger, walks through a field of giant flowers, and comes upon Venus herself, buried up to her shoulders in sand. She is a giant, and she takes him to her breast. He wakes from the vortex, back in the bar, his mood transformed.

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