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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
Its ritualized tableaux, dense religious iconography, and dream logic create a similarly ecstatic challenge to conventional narrative, favoring symbolic images over explanation.
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Why this pick
Jodorowsky’s earlier acid-western pilgrimage shares the same sacrilegious wit, archetypal figures, abrupt transformations, and spiritual quest shaped as a surreal spectacle.
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Why this pick
A feverish circus-gothic melodrama from Jodorowsky, combining shocking religious imagery, grotesque comedy, wounded family bonds, and intensely composed color-saturated visions.
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Why this pick
Folklore, black magic, desire, and Christian imagery collide in stark monochrome compositions, creating a strange rural fable with the same taste for profane spiritual spectacle.
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01 / THE STORY
A man (later identified as the thief) representing The Fool (Tarot card) tarot card lies naked in the desert with flies covering his face like excrement. He is befriended by a footless, handless dwarf representing the Five of Swords, and the pair travel into the city where they make money entertaining tourists. Because the thief resembles Jesus in appearance, some locals cast an impression of his body and sell the resulting crucifixes. After a dispute with a priest, the thief eats off the face of his wax statue and sends it skyward with balloons, symbolically eating the body of Christ and offering "himself" up to Heaven. Soon after, he notices a crowd gathered around a tall tower, where a large hook with a bag of gold has been sent down in exchange for food.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Fon, He whose planet is Venus
The Alchemist
The Prostitute
Tourist Wife
