In Santa Sangre, life is a psychosexual circus (literally)
Santa Sangre is a 1989 Mexican/Italian surrealist thriller directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky and starring his son Axel as Fenix, an uncommunicative young Christ figure residing in a mental health facility in Mexico City. After introducing the adult Fenix, the story flashes back to his tragic childhood in the traveling “Circus Gringo.” Fenix’s mother, Concha, is…
