Santa Sangre
Directed : Alejandro Jodorowsky
Produced : Claudio Argento
Cinematography : Daniele Nannuzzi
Music : Simon Boswell
Run Time : 2H 05M
Santa Sangre is a throwback to the golden age, to the days when filmmakers had bold individual visions and were not timidly trying to duplicate the latest mass-market formulas. This is a movie like none before, a wild kaleidoscope of images and outrages, a collision between Freud and Fellini. It contains blood and glory, saints and circuses, and unspeakable secrets of the night. And it is all wrapped up in a flamboyant parade of bold, odd, striking imagery, with Alejandro Jodorowsky as the ringmaster.
Santa Sangre begins with a brief scene involving a Christ-like nude perched on a tree limb in what appears to be the cell of a sanatorium. A doctor and nurses arrive with food: a conventional dinner and a plate of raw fish. It's the fish, of course, that brings the man down from his perch. While the doctor and nurses coax him into overalls, an elaborate tattoo of an eagle is revealed on the young man's chest. The film promptly flashes back to tell the story behind the tattoo as well as the story behind the young man's present state.
Produced : Claudio Argento
Cinematography : Daniele Nannuzzi
Music : Simon Boswell
Run Time : 2H 05M
Santa Sangre is a throwback to the golden age, to the days when filmmakers had bold individual visions and were not timidly trying to duplicate the latest mass-market formulas. This is a movie like none before, a wild kaleidoscope of images and outrages, a collision between Freud and Fellini. It contains blood and glory, saints and circuses, and unspeakable secrets of the night. And it is all wrapped up in a flamboyant parade of bold, odd, striking imagery, with Alejandro Jodorowsky as the ringmaster.
Santa Sangre begins with a brief scene involving a Christ-like nude perched on a tree limb in what appears to be the cell of a sanatorium. A doctor and nurses arrive with food: a conventional dinner and a plate of raw fish. It's the fish, of course, that brings the man down from his perch. While the doctor and nurses coax him into overalls, an elaborate tattoo of an eagle is revealed on the young man's chest. The film promptly flashes back to tell the story behind the tattoo as well as the story behind the young man's present state.
