The Jodorowsky Constellation
1994 · 91 MIN · IMDB 6.7 · 563 VOTES · DIR. Louis Mouchet
Overview
This documentary depicts the filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky talking about his life, his loves, his career as a filmmaker, graphic novelist, and workshop leader, and his eccentricities including tarot reader and theatrical director during The Panic Movement. Directed by Louis Mouchet, La Constellation Jodorowsky includes a lengthy on-camera interview with Jodorowsky in Spanish with subtitles. Marcel Marceau, Fernando Arrabal, Peter Gabriel, Jean "Moebius" Giraud, and Jean Pierre Vignau make appearances discussing their various projects with the director. In addition to the interview and film clips, Mouchet features some bizarre footage from Jodorowsky’s absurdist plays in which topless women splattered with paint writhe around the stage in a theatrical production meant to represent The Panic Movement, i.e., an artistic expression in which reason cannot fully express the human experience.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,031 lines
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00:00:05 I hope that I am still alive when this film is shown
00:07:09 So I decided to found a theater without any text.
00:10:28 and eat it.
00:14:14 What we are for is...
00:17:43 ...in a sadomasochisticworld.
00:24:17 So I thought that the film could be as sacred as an initiation...
00:27:59 I went to his examination at Marceau's mime school and was convinced.
00:31:26 There is a lot of violence in your films...
00:36:00 What remains is the wonderful preparation.
00:40:21 My guitar was like a weapon, and I learned to fight with it.
00:44:57 It took four to six hours to do a 60-page album.
00:48:50 ...to induce calm before the lecture begins.
00:51:54 As he said, when I give karate lessons
00:55:44 the grandmother and the radar
00:58:49 My illnesses are created by my family.
01:01:31 where we find sadomasochism everywhere
01:04:23 '' Listen, my mother is dying. I am going to send a letter...
01:07:31 I think he was 16.
01:10:30 I would place him just behind my father, so he's not seen.
01:13:15 They were born on the same day.
01:15:37 ...that he is in peace.
01:18:11 Nothing affective.
01:20:46 - That's revolutionary in your life. - That's right.
02:00:00 What is my merit?''