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Format: VHS
Mar 1991
Rated R
Recording Mode: Stereo
Sound: HiFi, Stereo
Closed Captioned
120 min.
Color
UPC: 017153356038 |
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Movie Description
A sadistic circus master mutilates his wife after she catches him with another woman, so traumatizing their son who witnesses it that he is committed to an institution. The armless mother and her son are reunited years later in an unholy alliance.
Synopsis
A hallucinatory, dreamlike study of one individual's disturbed psyche; the line between truth and imagination blurs in this surreal universe.
Fenix has always lived in the rarefied and strange world of the circus, where both his parents work. But when his mother spots his father going off with another woman, a tragic battle results in which Fenix's father is killed, and his mother loses her arms. The boy goes insane, and remains institutionalized... until, many years later, his mother reclaims him, and together they embark on a bloody trail of revenge.
And only one person from the past knows the secret of the serial murders.
Film Notes
One of the year's "Top Ten," said Siskel & Ebert. Hallucinatory shock king Alejandro Jodorowsky directs this tale of a young man who "loans" his arms to his mother, mutilated 12 years before by his vengeful father. In return, he gets to use her mind to carry out his own demented agenda.
Available in both R-rated and its original NC-17 versions.
Additional cast: Thelma Tixou, Adan Jodorowsky, Faviola
Elenka Tapia, Teo Jodorowsky.
Produced by InterSound.
Industry Reviews
"...Visionary and haunting..."
Rolling Stone - p.38 - Peter Travers (04/19/1990)
"...Movie making as Rorschach test....It confirms [Jodorowsky's] ability to create and control a bright visual circus that never becomes dull..."
New York Times - p.C12 - Caryn James (04/20/1990)
"...There's no denying Jodorowsky's visual flair in this film..."
Los Angeles Times - p.F8 - Kevin Thomas (03/30/1990)
"...[With] extraordinarily striking visuals..."
USA Today - p.3D - Mike Clark (05/10/1991)
"...The quality Jodorowsky has above all is passionate sincerity. Apart from his wild creative style, apart from his images, apart from his story inventions, he has strong moral feelings..."
Chicago Sun-Times - p.5 - Roger Ebert (09/03/2003)
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