Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell
A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mo...( read more
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Set in the world of travelling-circus sideshows, Santa Sangre already promises us circus-midgets, freaks and mutilations.
And if the plot isn't strange enough, Jodorowsky decides to throw in an elephant burial, a Temple of Blood, some naked zombie-bride, a fat hooker doing t...( read more)
After a long absence Jodorowsky returned with this surreal but more accessible offering than his earlier work, focusing on a circus and starring Jodorowsky's son and grandson as Fenix, a young boy who witnesses his father cut off the arms of his mother before committing suicide. ...( read more)
Just as "Big Fish" showed Burton's style all over the place but in a mature, sutile way, "Santa Sangre" shows a mature Jodorowsky that doesn't rejoice in his own visual style or earlier screenplays but creates a masterpiece on the lunatic and family with larger-than-life performa...( read more)
I really liked this movie. The story was more coherent than Jodorowsky's previous "El Topo", "Fando & Lis" and "The Holy Mountain" - and the imagery was less-revolting.
When I first saw the bare monkey-man in the tree of the mental hospital, I thought "Oh gosh, this is going to ...( read more)
Goddamn, the images in this film scared the shit out of me, but I was so in love with it all.
"Santa Sangre" es un excepcional logro; un filme poetico, surrealista y bizarro. Pero contrario a las otras obras maestras de Jodorowsky ("El Topo" y "La Montaña Sagrada") esta no solo es estimulante de manera visual e intelectual sino que de veras nos atrapa en lo emotivo de su ...( read more)
This movie was crazy in the best possible way. The intensity of the barrage of disturbing imagery was at an all time high with this classic gem. Jodorowsky's work in this film is highlighted due to the fact that unlike many of his other films this one was filmed in Italy. This fi...( read more)
PAN AND SCAN. Para algunos puede ser decepcionante la presencia de una línea narrativa clara en una película de Jodorowsky, pero considero que es lo que da cauce al fetichismo del director por lo grotesco y todo lo marginal, y le permite ser fascinante en vez de tediosa. / For so...( read more)
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