Santa Sangre
by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Mexico, Italy
1989
123 min
OV English, Italian with French subtitles
Feature film
Fiction
Color
DCP
Out of Competition 2019
The programmer’s eye
A young man named Fenix escapes from a mental hospital to rejoin his armless mother - the leader of a strange religious cult - and is forced to enact brutal murders in her name. A lesser known Jodorowsky film, “Santa sangre” is one of the director’s craziest pieces.
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