The Dance of Reality (2013)
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
'Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.' This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. He was born in 1929 Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
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As purely personal a film as Jodorowsky has ever made, “ Dance ” features no shortage of the bizarro imagery and willful atonalities that have long been his stock-in-trade, but it all seems to stem from a more sincere, coherent place this time than in the flamboyant head movies (“El Topo,” “The Holy Mountain”) that made him a star of the 1970s midnight movie scene.
Could Alejandro Jodorowsky’s phantasmagoria of bizarre imagery, overflowing in movies like “El Topo” (1970), “The Holy Mountain” (1973), and “Santa Sangre” (1989), have sprung from something as banal as daddy issues?
But Jodorowsky has long been preoccupied by the extremes of human behavior, exploring the rawer side of violence, sex, art, spirituality, and fanaticism in the likes of El Topo, The Holy Mountain, and Santa Sangre.
Like his "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain," Jodorowsky's new "The Dance of Reality" is a thrillingly surrealist exercise, one that plays out like a dream -- sometimes like a nightmare -- as it relates Jodorowsky's semi-autobiographical, coming-of-age tale.
I finally found some money to make another movie, the cult director of El Topo and The Holy Mountain seems to be saying to us, explaining his 24-year absence from the world of features.
The grandfather of the midnight movie, as he's been dubbed, made a 1970s splash with "El Topo" and "The Holy Mountain," then largely vanished from filmmaking after his planned adaptation of Frank Herbert's novel "Dune" fell apart (as chronicled in the recent, excellent documentary "Jodorowsky's Dune." ).