Above all, Santa Sangre is a return to the wild days of cinema when it could still be scandalous and unique! Santa Sangre is a movie I've never seen before! Very bloody, glamorous, glorious! Basically, Santa Sangre is a film about the mystery of the night. Jodorowsky returns to his roots and offers a two-hour trip, an excess for the senses. In Mexico, Fenix travels with his father's travelling circus. The father is a strong man with tattoos, the mother an acrobat on a trapeze, wrapped in her curly mane. She is also something like the leader of a secret cult of women devoted to a goddess without arms (a man hurt her, took her arms). The blood of this saint: Santa Sangre. As the mother swirls through the air on the trapeze, she watches her husband leaving the circus with another woman (full of tattoos). She follows him, kills the woman and gives the husband poison. He cuts off her arms and finally commits suicide. Years later we meet the son again in a mental hospital. He sits on a tree and refuses any form of communication. The mother manages to bring him back into the world, where he meets a deaf-mute girl. His way out seems like a symbolic trip for Freudians, because he mutates into the slave of the mother without arms. While they perform together in a nightclub, one wonders whether all this is actually happening? But Jodorwosky won't answer these questions for us, instead he throws us into the whirlpool of events that drive the film forward. Unforgettable the scene of the elephant burial...
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