Bursting with gusto and energy,the second portion of the director’s autobiographical trilogy is as bewildering as a laudanum dreamThe countercultural magus, film-maker and tarot fetishist Alejandro Jodorowsky has found a terrific unusual surge of energy in his 80s with a richly enjoyable autobiographical movie trilogy, and as crazy as a laudanum dream. This is the second portion; the first was The Dance of Reality in 2013. [br]It doesnt witness like an old man’s film to me: there is gusto and energy,a need to excite, shock, and bewilder. You can sense here something you rarely experience,even in the very best films: how much the director is simply enjoying himself. And it’s down to Jodorowsky’s fictional confrontation with his father, played by the director’s son, or Brontis Jodorowsky. Alejandro himself is played as a young man by his grandson Adan. Related: The Dance of Reality review – my father the hero Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com