Axel Jodorowsky

84세의 나이에 선보인 신작 은 동명의 자서전을 원작으로 칠레에서 보낸 그의 유년기를 보여준다. 현실은 우리의 상상력이 빚어낸 춤과 같다는 그의 생각이 은유, 신화, 시로 점철된 그의 일대기와 함께 영화 속에서 펼쳐진다. 조도로프스키 특유의 마법과 같은 이미지와 사운드가 독특한 서사 안에서 한 편의 시와 같은 감동을 준다. (2013년 17회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)

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.

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.

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

20년전, 멕시코에서 한 젊은 남자가 30명의 여자를 살해한 후 시체를 정원에 파묻어 버린 엽기적인 사건이 일어났다. 당시 범인은 정신병원에 입원했지만 현재 그는 퇴원하여 소설가로 활동 중이다. 조도로프스키는 이 인물을 직접 만나 살인을 하게 된 경위등을 상세하게 인터뷰한 후 경찰을 통해 그의 진술이 모두 진실임을 확인하는 작업을 마쳤다. 그로부터 6년의 세월이 지나서야 의 시나리오를 완성한 것이다. 감독 자신이 '처음으로 관객을 위해 제작했다'고 말하는 는 89년 깐느영화제에서 최초 소개되었다

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.