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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Jodorowsky's ritualistic pageant shares Santa Sangre’s blasphemous circus imagery, grotesque beauty and dream-logic, building a surreal spiritual journey through meticulously composed, shocking tableaux.
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Why this pick
This is similarly operatic, cruel and visually formal: a theatrical world of sacred iconography, bodily extremity and spectacle where beauty and revulsion are deliberately inseparable.
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Why this pick
For Santa Sangre’s visceral psychological horror, this compact industrial nightmare offers another intensely personal descent into bodily transformation, obsession and frantic, hallucinatory imagery.
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Why this pick
A monochrome fever dream of damaged people, ritualized violence and unstable identities, it matches the film’s transgressive emotional intensity and willingness to make trauma feel like surreal performance.
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Why this pick
Its sun-bleached rural imagery disguises a child’s horrifying, myth-colored perception of family and violence. The same collision of innocence, grotesquerie and exquisite artifice makes it a strong companion.
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01 / THE STORY
The film starts with a naked figure sitting in a tree in what looks like a History of psychiatric institutions. Nurses come out to him, bringing a plate of conventional food and also one of a raw fish. As they try to coax him off of his perch, it is the fish that persuades him to come down. As the nurses get him to put on some overalls, the viewer sees that he has a tattoo of a phoenix on his chest.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Concha
Orgo
Young Alma
Rubi
