Film
Cinema Rediscovered: Santa Sangre
- Director
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Certificate
- 18
- Running Time
- 123 mins
Variously described as brilliant, sick, disgusting, and ridiculous, El Topo and Holy Mountain director Alejandro Jodorowsky‘s 1989 classic was his first film since 1973. It has his son Axel sitting atop a tree in a Mexican asylum having a flashback to the childhood trauma that brought on his madness. A boy-magician in a circus, whose trapeze artist mum is a member of a weird religious cult while dad is carrying on with the tattooed lady, he finally flips when mum pours acid on dad’s genitals and dad chops off mum’s arms in retaliation. The film treads dangerous ground in its surreal voyeurism and stylised violence which delivers an intense and unrelenting nightmare of possession by evil and madness.
https://youtu.be/rpl8bWYk5RU
This Cinema Rediscovered screening is part of the Scala Rediscovered programme and will be introduced by former Scala Cinema Club Programmer turned historian Jane Giles.
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