![]() Yet, from film world coverage of Danza de la Realidad, one might easily get the impression that Jodorowsky has simply been unoccupied since his last film, 1990’s Santa Sangre. His latest film, Danza de la Realidad (2013), an adaptation of his autobiography, debuted at Cannes last month and, based on reviews, it’s a vital addition to his canon of film marvels. Jodorowsky is known primarily as a filmmaker, chiefly for the early 1970s psychedelic masterpieces El Topo (1970) and The Holy Mountain (1973). The Chilean Alejandro Jodorowsky belongs in that company. It’s only a small number of polymaths - Marguerite Duras, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Genet among them - whose talents have been evenly spread between cinema and the page (not to mention the stage). A few novelists have directed films, but generally this has proven a diversion, and the only reason on earth to ever cite Michael Crichton, Norman Mailer, and Susan Sontag in the same sentence. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the author-director, producing work for the page and the screen? That’s a much rarer breed. ![]()
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