Jodorowsky on filmmaking

Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles

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Freelance film critic and hardcore cinephile.

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REVIEWS

Eastern Boys – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A highly narrative dramatic - romantic film by by Robin Campillo dealing with male prostitution and the trafficking of boys from the Eastern Europe in France. Winner of 70th Venice Orizzonti section.

Sobytie (The Event) – Tallinn 19 Docs

Sergei Loznitsa investigates the events that took place in Leningrad, after a failed coup d’état and marked Soviet Union's end, by creating a grainy prequel of his previous doc, Maidan.

El Chacal de Nahueltoro (Jackal of Nahueltoro, 1969)

One of the most important political films not only for Chilean cinema but also for the whole South America directed by Miguel Littín.

La Vie Nouvelle (A New Life, 2002)

Philippe Grandrieux offers a multilayered dream-like filmic experience through the most radical experimental film of the recent years.

Jauja (2014)

Jodorowsky meets Tarkovsky with a touch of Beckettian minimalism in Lisandro Alonso's hypnotic meta-Western that leads Viggo Mortensen into a never-ending journey to a surreal existential void.

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Eastern Boys – Venice 70 Orizzonti

Sobytie (The Event) – Tallinn 19 Docs

El Chacal de Nahueltoro (Jackal of Nahueltoro, 1969)

La Vie Nouvelle (A New Life, 2002)

Jauja (2014)

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