Alejandro Jodorowsky male, born on February 7,
1929 , Chile Born in Chile in 1929, His father is Russian and his mother is Argentine. Chilean-Mexican playwright, film director, actor, composer and producer. He is also a philosopher of comparative religion, historian and psychotherapist. At the age of 16, he began to publish poems. At the age of 17, he began to participate in pantomime and puppet theater performances. At the age of 24, he went to Paris to study the art of pantomime. He also spent more than 15 years studying tarot cards, and gradually formed his own set of psychotherapy system. The basic principle is to use artistic performances to act on the subconscious of patients to achieve the effect of treating mental diseases.
Since "Fandor and Liz", Alessandro Jodorowsky has been walking on a road of magical realism, especially when "The Mole" established the style and became a classic movie in the midnight theater, Jodorowsky Lovsky has thus become a well-known director with a strong personal style. "Holy Mountain" is a work from 1973, and the film continues the shadow of the director's "road movie".
In 1968, he directed his first feature film "Fando and Liz", which caused riots when it was performed at the Acapulco Film Festival in Mexico. In 1970, he directed The Mole, which was released in American theaters with the help of John Lennon and became a cult classic. In 1973, with the support of John Lennon's independent investment, he directed "Sacred Mountain" with a budget of 1.5 million US dollars, which was the highest budget film in Mexico at the time. In 1975, Hollywood invited Jodorowsky to direct the sci-fi film "Dune" based on the novel of the same name, but it was not realized because the two sides could not reach a consensus. Later, the film was directed by David Lynch in 1980.
"Holy Blood" was directed in 1989. In 1990 directed the mainstream film "Rainbow Thieves".
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