About Love
2017
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Aug 31, 2003 · Fenix, his hero, is literally a man whose world is defined by his obsessions. The witness to his mother's mutilation and his father's suicide, he is in an insane asylum when the film opens, perched atop a tree trunk. When he returns to the world, it is to play the role of his mother's arms and hands.
Mar 9, 2006 · Eleven Men Out. Sangre reveals Amat Escalante’s kinship to the prol-obsessed cinema of Bruno Dumont, only the director forgets to spike the story’s punch.
Jun 6, 2005 · Sangre is an intriguing prospect for the more adventurousart-house distributors, and is bound to have a healthy festival presence,especially given another currently prominent Mexican connection...
86% Tomatometer 44 Reviews 87% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings In Mexico, the traumatized son (Axel Jodorowsky) of a knife-thrower (Guy Stockwell) and a trapeze artist bonds grotesquely with his...
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- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- NC-17
- Axel Jodorowsky
Reviews 39% Audience Score 250+ Ratings A man finds himself caught in the middle when his daughter from a previous relationship appears, but his current wife will not accept her.
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- Amat Escalante
- Drama
Visionary and haunting, Santa Sangre is a mixture of blood poetry and gobbledygook that keeps springing astonishingly to life. Full Review | Nov 26, 2012
Film Review by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat. Diego (Cirilo Recio) is a cross-eyed, middle-aged man who works as a doorman in a government building and spends the day counting the persons who pass in front of him. His younger wife Blanca (Laura Saldaña) works in a fast-food sushi bar.
