The Dance of Reality (La Danza de la Realidad)

THE MOVIE

‘Having separated myself from my illusory self, I desperately sought a path and a meaning for life’. This sentence perfectly defines Alexandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: to recreate the incredible adventure and quest that was his life.

The film is an exercise in imaginary autobiography. Born in Chile in 1929, in the small town of Tocopilla where the film was shot, Alejandro Jodorowsky was confronted with a very harsh and violent upbringing in an uprooted family. Although the facts and characters are real, fiction overtakes reality in a poetic universe in which the director reinvents his family and in particular his father’s journey to redemption, reconciling a man with his childhood.