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Santa sangre

Santa Sangre

1989

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Axel Jodorowsky, Blanca Guerra, Guy Stockwell, Thelma Tixou ...

6.8

3,384

Horror. Drama. Thriller A hallucinatory, dreamlike study of one individual's disturbed psyche; the line between truth and imagination blurs in this surreal universe. A young man is confined in a mental hospital. Through a flashback we see that he was traumatized as a child, when he and his family were circus performers: he saw his father cut off the arms of his mother, a religious fanatic and leader of the heretical church of Santa Sangre ("Holy Blood"), and ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"To call 'Santa Sangre' (1989) a horror film would be unjust to a film that exists outside all categories. But in addition to its deeper qualities, it is a horror film, one of the greatest (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"What an extraordinary film: creepy, humid, unwholesome – touched with moments of crazed inspiration (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"[It] is just as silly and pretentious as 'El Topo' (1970) and 'The Holy Mountain' (1973), but it's similarly watchable and fun in a campy, sub-Fellini sort of way"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"[It] has moments of hallucinatory brilliance (...) Visionary and haunting, 'Santa Sangre' is a mixture of blood poetry and gobbledygook that keeps springing astonishingly to life"	POS
United Kingdom	William Thomas Empire	"Revolting yet impressive (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"It confirms Mr. Jodorowsky's ability to create and control a bright visual circus that never becomes dull."	POS
United States	Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"There’s no denying Jodorowsky’s visual flair in this film (...) but once again he exercises no restraint whatsoever upon his feverish imagination, which results repeatedly in the most obvious, overstated symbolism"	NEU
United States	Rob Humanick Slant	"'Santa Sangre' is at once disturbingly perverse yet strangely logical within its fucked-up framework (...) It’s an essential work of phantasmagorical cinema (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS

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