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Santa Sangre ("Saint Blood") is a 1989 Mexican-Italian surrealist horror film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and written by Jodorowsky along with Claudio Argento and Roberto Leoni. Divided into both a flashback and a flashforward, the film, which is set in Mexico, tells the story of Fenix (Axel Jodorowsky), a boy who grew up in a circus, and his life through both adolescence and early adulthood. Whilst still a child, he witnesses his mother Concha (Blanca Guerra), who is devoted to an armless saint, have her own arms cut off by her enraged husband, and being so shocked by this, he is subsequently institutionalised in a mental sanitorium. Eventually leaving the facility as a man, he becomes his mother's servant, literally acting as her arms, and is forced to commit the murders that she commands.

It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, and generally was critically well received, eventually being ranked 476th on Empire magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time. Like many of Jodorowsky's films, it has since become a cult film. In the United States, it was originally rated NC-17 for "several scenes of extremely explicit violence". However, an edited version was released with an R rating for "bizarre, graphic violence and sensuality, and for drug content."

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Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:32 am
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My first taste of Jodorowsky; while more narratively straight-forward and thematically lucid than I was expecting, that's not to say it's uninteresting. Indeed, Jodorowsky's casual approach to his terrifically surrealist visuals is perhaps the film's strongest feature, as he feels no need to show off or dwell on shots longer than he has to. The result is a confident, accomplished work that combines Italian giallo tropes, Hollywood horror-film iconography, and carnivalesque imagery and themes into a fluid and coherent whole. Jodorowsky may be bizarre and grotesque, but at least he takes advantage of it.

El Topo and The Holy Mountain are high on my list, now.

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Magic Mike wrote:
zwackerm wrote:
If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes.


Same.


Algren wrote:
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Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:55 am
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No, I watched it in class.

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Magic Mike wrote:
zwackerm wrote:
If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes.


Same.


Algren wrote:
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Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:46 pm
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For the record, I don't see much of Jodorowsky in Drive, but perhaps I just need to watch more of his stuff.

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Magic Mike wrote:
zwackerm wrote:
If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes.


Same.


Algren wrote:
I don't think. I predict. ;)


Thu Sep 22, 2011 2:05 pm
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