The film tells the story of the Boteros, a middle-class Mexican family struggling against poverty after their father’s death. Ignacia (Egurrola) is the Boteros mother, a desperate woman who chooses to sacrifice the destiny of her three older children, in order to protect Gabriel (Laguardia) the youngest one. She believes Gabriel will climb the social structure and bring back the lost fortune to the family. But destiny has other plans for the Boteros and tragedy will overcome eventually. Based on the novel of Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.

Principio.fin.1993.Dvdrip.x264-MMENDES.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/1CCB5B9EC20ED32/Principio.fin.1993.Dvdrip.x264-MMENDES.mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:English, Spanish

The post Arturo Ripstein – Principio y fin AKA The Beginning and the End (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Santa Sangre is the surreal horror story about a young man, Fenix (Axel Jodorowsky) who has grown up in a circus with his mother Concha (Blanca Guerra) and his philandering father. Fenix witnesses a brutal fight between his mother and father, at the end of which his mother loses both of her arms and his father commits suicide. Fenix spends years in an insane asylum, before his mother persuades him to act as her hands in her bizarre nightclub act. Soon, Concha is having Fenix perform a variety of murders, where he is killing every female in sight. Though the film has some of the hallucinatory qualities of Jodorowsky’s earlier films, Santa Sangre doesn’t quite have the same punch, particularly in terms of cerebral and emotional impact, despite its fine visuals. Santa Sangre is available in both R-rated and NC-17 edits.

3.09GB | 2h 02mn | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5382BE9E05D8CB1/Santa.Sangre.1989.REM.576p.Bluray.x264-KG_(commentary_fixed).mkv

https://ddownload.com/b79wyh9b98fn/Santa.Sangre.1989.REM.576p.Bluray.x264-KG_(commentary_fixed).mkv

Language(s):English+commentary
Subtitles:English

The post Alejandro Jodorowsky – Santa Sangre [+ director’s commentary] (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Does the prolonged gestation period account for the bulging-valise feel of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s seething, gore-drenched carnivale? Not really — all of his pictures seem deliberately shaped to let the fantasies spill over once poured in, and this lushly scabrous murkfest, made after nearly a decade of inactivity, is true to the molten-lava of Jodorowsky’s imagination. As in his ’70s freakouts, the movie follows the trajectory of the subconscious, namely Fenix’s (as in “rising from the ashes,” and played at different ages by the filmmaker’s sons, Axel and Adan), first spotted perched nekkid atop a tree in the asylum. Cue flashback, and the parade of candy-colored melodrama surging out of the “Circo del Gringo,” traumas piling up on little Fenix’s innocence via his bloated, randy cowboy dad (Guy Stockwell) and his fervid-eyed mom (Blanca Guerra), who, when not dangling from a trapeze by her hair, presides over an order of fanatics worshipping an armless martyr. The big-top grotesqueries culminate in a fraglante delicto between Stockwell and the Tattooed Lady (Thelma Tixou), and a steal from Browning’s The Unknown which leaves Guerra closer to her idol than she may have wanted. Elsewhere, an elephant’s tank-sized coffin gets dumped off a steep cliff only to turn brunch for the dirt-caked masses bellow, but for Jodorowsky the story remains about a son’s Oedipal chains, Fenix dubbing in for Ma’s missing limbs and filling his garden with the carved bodies of the women who arouse his lust. Yes, it’s Psycho, but it’s also the Theatre of the Absurd, acid castration, El Santo wrestling flicks, Whale’s The Invisible Man, a chubby burlesque queen doffing off her schoolgirl plaids to “Besame Mucho,” and a gigantic python slithering out of the hero’s pants as he eyes a potential flame. It’s about Jodorowsky’s Jesus complex, his theatricality and illusionism, and outdoing El Topo in its promiscuous miscegenation of art forms. All in throbbing hues and accordion music. Unforgettable, whether you like it or not. With Sabrina Dennison as the angelically pantomiming Alma.

2.48GB | 2h 3mn | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/F1CDD9AB1FF7A84/Alejandro_Jodorowsky_-_%281989%29_Santa_Sangre.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Alejandro Jodorowsky – Santa sangre [+Commentary] (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.