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"An imagined autobiography" - that is how Alejandro Jodorowsky, one of the most daring and eccentric filmmakers alive today, defines his new film. Taking the story of his own life as a starting point, the director begins his trajectory in the small city of Tocopilla, in the Chilean desert, where he grew up having only his imagination for an ally. Stretching fiction to its limits, Jodorowsky justifies this mesh of poetry, philosophy, film, tarot and his own self-evident idiosyncrasies as an attempt to understand and expose who he is in fact. Directors Fortnight Cannes 2013.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Born in Chile. He directed his first feature-length film in 1968, Fando & Lis. Two years later he released his most famous film, El Topo, that quickly became a hit in the underground circuit. The Holy Mountain (1973) was partially sponsored by his big fan John Lennon and premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. He is also co-creator of the comic strip The Incal, in collaboration with the late French illustrator Moebius.
