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The Dance of Reality Reviews
Nice blend of emotional realism and magical realism.
An introspective and intimate examination of childhood. A poetic fairy tale, visually astounding. Jodorowksy deconstructs and then rebuilds himself as a modern archetype .
I don't think there are many people that liked "Endless Poetry" and did not like "The Dance of Reality", I don't think so, nevertheless I might be one of them. Well, is not that I did not like the latter, I just expected more. The mistake might have been watching them in opposite order. "Endless Poetry" simply contain more magic, more pizzazz, so what might have been a crescendo, became a "decreasendo".
Elaborar o passado como uma saga rica em alegorias e em que as dores são transfiguradas não é pouca coisa. O cuidado visual é encantador. Pena que a visão um pouco mais positiva dos pais é negada no segundo filme. Bom, ainda restam três. :)
Jodorowsky's first film after 23 years is a bizarre semi-autobiography, full of colourful surreal moments, blending, also, history and politics with his personal philosophy. The result is satisfying enough, although the film seems tiresome at times.
I had a feeling this would be a disappointment but how wrong I was. AJ is on top form and with a huge underlying layer of compassion and warmth underlying proceedings, unlike his earlier films perhaps.
Epäsovinnainen kerronta mutta kuitenkin niin tyypillistä Jodorowsky:a. Vain Jodorowskyn päästä voi irrota jotain näinkin sekopäistä. Kyseistä herraa ei kyllä rajoita mitkään häveliäisyyssäännöt.
Unwatchably bad. The production design alone makes me want to die
cinegeek.de Wer hätte im Jahr 2014 vorausgesehen, dass die Ikone Alejandro Jodorowsky ein echte Kino Comeback erleben würde? Der gebürtige Chilene gilt zumindest unter den Freunden der Midnight Movies aus den 70ern als Muss, auch wenn er später nur noch eine Handvoll Filme fertigstellen konnte. Aus der Sensation der frühen 70er wurde eine ewige Hoffnung. Immerhin gab es seit 1990 keinen Jodorowsky Film mehr zu sehen und schon gar keinen, den er selbst abgesegnet hätte! Aus verschiedenen Gründen kamen sämtliche Vorhaben Jodorowskys nicht zustande. Das Wunderkind der 70er schien am Ende. The Dance Of Reality aber ist ein semi-autobiographischer Film, der beweist, dass das Alter Jodorowsky nicht mürbe gemacht hat! Wir erleben hier das persönlichste und emotionalste Werk Jodorowskys seiner ganzen Karriere und - es wird das Publikum polarisieren! Bestimmt werden einige sogar sagen, dass The Dance Of Reality einer DER Filme des Jahres sei! Der Film blickt zurück in die frühen 30er nach Tocopilla in Chile. Dort wuchs Jodorowsky auf. Wir erleben den jungen Alejandro (Jeremias Herskovits) und seine Beziehung zu den Eltern. Der Vater Jaime (ironischer Weise gespielt vom Sohn Brontis Jodorowsky) ist besessen von Stalin und will Alejandro genauso erziehen. Er will einen Mann aus ihm machen! Die Mutter Sara (Pamela Flores) spricht so als würde sie in einer Seifenoper auftreten. Während der zweiten Hälfte des Films radikalisiert sich Jaime, verlässt seine Familie und endet physisch und spirituelll verkrüppelt. Interessant ist an dieser Stelle nicht nur die Vater-Sohn Beziehung, sondern auch Jodorowskys Faszination für Zwerge und Krüppel. Was ist neu an The Dance Of Reality? Ich denke, zum ersten Mal traut sich Jodorowsky, seine Ideen direkt, ohne Rechtfertigung vorzuführen. Es gibt keinen surrealen Filter und keine extreme Gewalt! Jodorowsky kommt schliesslich zum Schluss, dass er seinen Vater gleichzeitig hasste, aber eben auch liebte. Jodorowsky hatte es bestimmt nicht leicht seit der Fertigstellung seines letzten Films und deshalb doziert er auch so gern über Geld (bei ihm ist Geld das Böse schlechthin). Jodorowsky meditiert im Prolog über die Notwendigkeit des Geldes und wir zweifeln keinen Augenblick daran, wie sehr ihm die Suche nach Geldgebern zugesetzt haben muss. Aber es hat sich gelohnt! The Dance Of Reality steckt voller visueller Wunder - locker hätten seine Ideen für ein Dutzend Filme gereicht! Ich meine damit nicht nur, dass seine Bilder so ungewöhnlich und bizarr sind! Das Tolle daran ist die Tatsache, dass sie etwas Persönliches repräsentieren, etwas, das aus seiner Geschichte resultiert (auch wenn das auf den ersten Blick nicht klar wird). Ganz am Anfang erleben wir eine Szene, in der Alejandro Steine ins Meer wirft. Daraufhin bäumt sich eine gewaltige Welle auf und spült tausende von Sardinen an den Strand. Vom technischen Standpunkt mag das zwar alles nicht den neuesten Errungenschaften entsprechen, das Bild aber werde ich so schnell nicht aus dem Kopf bekommen (ganz im Gegensatz zu den allermeisten Big Budget Produktionen). Ich bin mir sicher, dass diese Szene eine Bedeutung hat für Jodorowsky, selbst wenn ich nicht genau erklären kann, welche denn nun genau! Vermutlich werden einige nun enttäuscht sein, dass die beiden Hälften von The Dance Of Reality nicht wirklich zusammen passen? Oder verwundert darüber, dass Jodorowsky das Geschehen nicht auf den Punkt bringen will? Solche Vorwürfe aber treffen nicht den Kern. Jodorowsky will uns mitnehmen auf eine visuelle Entdeckungs-Reise und präsentiert Bilder, die wir nie zuvor sehen konnten! Nicht einmal ein Vierteljahrhundert ohne Beschäftigung (zumindest keine, die wir auf der Leinwand bestaunen konnten) vermochte es, diese Leidenschaft Jodorowskys zu drosseln! Dazu haben wir die erstaunlichsten mystischen Filme gesammelt als Film List auf der Seite unserer Videothek cinegeek.de
Alejandro Jodorowsky's first film in many years. It features one of his sons, it has great images, it's lovely shot and of course it's weird. Everything is just as it was left. The narration is quite fast and there is a lot of stuff going on - there are 50 big moments or something here - many memorable scenes and a solid story that's both shocking and impressive. Loads of nudity, some blood, gore and other stuff that may freak you out. Still, not a sickening film - there are plenty of beautifulness here too. We get dwarfs and crippled - everyone is on his radar as always. Otherwise, Stalin, nazism - politics and dictators are themes. Manlyness and the coming of manhood are other key elements. Smooth touches with the man himself on screen at times, a nice feature. A long awaited comeback 23 years after his latest film. And most importantly a great comeback. 8 out of 10 golden showers.
The Dance of Reality - A Surrealist Salute to Life The Dance of Reality Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMM5tZOsr3Q "You and I have only been memories- never reality. Something is dreaming us. Give yourself to the illusion. Live! Everything you are going to be, you already are. What you are looking for, is already within you. Rejoice in your sufferings. Thanks to them, you will reach me." - 'The Dance of Reality', Alejandro Jodorowsky Those words spoken from that soothing accented voice, nearly brings me to tears as I hear them. Self affirming sentiments often seen in internet memes today never seem as powerful except when spoken by the artist visionary Alejandro Jodorowsky. Being the director's first film of 23 years, it is a true testament to the soul sucking, money hunger that is film financing in the current industry as it was and has always been a struggle for Jodorowsky to find funding for his controversial cinematic masterpieces. As one of 1931 Production's most anticipated films of 2014, THE DANCE OF REALITY (La Danza de la Realidad) left us dazzled, filling our hearts with wonder and joy at this coming of age, politically fired, sexually charged, mesmorizingly violent, religious doused experience of a story. Reminiscent of Tim Burton's BIG FISH, through wildly fantastical stories Jodorowsky recounts his father's journey to developing a loving and accepting heart while also semi-autobiographically re-telling the beauty and horrors of his own childhood growing up in a small ocean side town in Chile. Although this is his most accessible film, it does not lack the depth and metaphor present in all his other works. It is an absurd poem dedicated to the exploration of both the miracles and sorrows in living, and like Jodorowsky's tyrant father, life can be simultaneously cruel and giving, making it not an enigma to understand but rather a moment to savor for it is all but an illusion we should give ourselves wholeheartedly to. The film, while denouncing God existence, also presents an enchanted world where belief in God does not simply lead to being slave to a particular religious sect, but imagines life where all things are possible through devout Faith and that love is universal and all encompassing. It presents two options through the characterization of his polar opposite parents who share passion in totally separate ideologies. While his father condemns the idea of God, "we die, and then we rot", his empathetic mother embraces the belief in a power greater than logic. Through her conviction she possesses a mysticism that makes possible the impossible, and poses the choice of believing in a world of imagination, fascination and love, or like his father's path, choosing the burden of the cynic and to live without compassion. It widdles down religion to something simple, that in a unpredictable world in which our own journey is defined by our individual perceptions, we can choose to either believe in magic or not. It makes me want to believe in the magic of God, because the other option feels so empty in comparison. THE DANCE OF REALITY is an exquisitely beautiful portrayal of what it means to live. Jodorowsky melds together time and space as he weaves a dreamscape in which the influential characters of his and his father's life live on to tell their stories. Like, BIG FISH they all stand at the edge of the water as a symbol of the departure from the life he once knew. He freely embellishes on his memories while presenting the notion that reality is in itself completely subjective to the individual perceiving it. Some may find that his works are too difficult to grasp, but they are more like poetic moving images meant to baptize you with universal truth and meaning in its philosophical symbolism. With a family overflowing with talent best known for the Coppolas, Alejandro Jodorowsky utilizes his sons for his films in ways welcomingly challenging traditional American parental ethics. The use of nudity by not only his actors but his children throughout his films as well present layers of statement about the human body and it's power through and beyond sexuality. Brontis is a force to behold as he plays his own grandfather in the film, and Adan Jodorowsky has a role as well as creating the hauntingly beautiful score. Axel Jodorowsky plays a Theosophist who introduces young Jodorowsky to the spirit of acceptance and love in religion. Alejandro plays an omnipresent figure of his present self who lovingly nurtures the young and lost Alejandro featured in the film. It is a metaphor for the faith one has in themselves, and speaking as a spiritual guide with a wisdom gained by time and experience, he reassures his past self that all things have meaning and that ultimately it will work out the way the way it should. As he says in HOLY MOUNTAIN, "Now you are an open heart, open to receive your true essence your ultimate perfection. Your new body, which is the universe, the work of god. You will be born again, you will be real. You will be your own father, your own mother, your own child, your own perfection." If this film is still playing in theaters near you, I desperately urge you to see it-- to not only support a true artist of our lifetime who has unjustifiably struggled to make important art for humanity, but to give yourself a chance to open your heart and mind to the fantastic. "I don't want to make industrial films to earn money, to make a living. I want to make films to lose money, films that oblige me to search employment in other creations. The cinema to me is sacred. It must be of service to something, to open our consciousness, to unite us to the past, present and future, to save the world. Of course, we cannot change the world, but we can start to change it. Don't ask me to present my film. All beings are infinite, my film is a being, it speaks for itself. I give you my honesty, my truth, this limited coffin where my infinite soul resides." - Alejandro Jodorowsky The Dance of Reality featurette: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/independent/thedanceofreality/ Read more film reviews: www.1931Productions.com
Many filmmakers have made movies about their childhoods, but none of them are Alejandro Jodorowsky. After a near 25 years absence, the cult director returns to the screen with a parade of freakish imagery, outlandish politics, & unabashed passion for the peculiarities of life
What happens in the fertile mind of a child. A flurry of ideas and perceptions, the reality of a more fantastic and pure form. Alejandro Jodorowsky's makes a trip back to their past and brings the viewer the dreams of the past that helped shape and strengthen the man's gift. Jodorowsky's show consumers that past, present and future are closely linked. A fascinating and extremely imaginary film, like the child who never ceased to exist in the director.
Kind of self-biographic movie set in coastal Chile, oddities and Jodorowsky characters to its fullest extend. Some extraordinary visual shots, though it don't keep the steam to the core all the way. Needless to say his most normal film, if that's possible to state.
Definitely a very different kind Jodorowsky film.I think I've seen all his films and this one is the least visually experimental but still really good film.It's more of a recounting of his child hood and family personal history but still has tons of great experimental metaphor and story telling blended with it.
Though slightly tamer than previous works, The Dance of Reality overflows with Jodorowsky's signature philosophical concepts and mystical symbolism, and provides a heartfelt and beautiful conclusion to an otherworldly repertoire.
Seriously, people? SERIOUSLY?! THIS is the movie critics are in love with?! Jodorowsky has been making movie's for way too long to be dealing with his own confused daddy-issues in such a blunt and self-pitying way. Maybe I'm missing something, but this movie did little more than creep/gross me out and annoy me with its endless pretension.