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
00:07:03 Or everything but the text?''
00:10:17 In the first meeting, the heart was too tough to eat
00:13:59 It's the scientific choice: the absurd or mystery.
00:17:09 find their unique expression in directing, I believe.
00:21:53 From a fairy tale the film evolves...
00:27:16 That's important to know.
00:30:30 Eventually I adapted, and it was good for me.
00:34:56 Someone had simply told me what the book was about.
00:38:26 ...who was to be played by Orson Welles.
00:42:40 I saw two pyramids and decided to go inside.
00:47:29 It is not autobiographical because this professor is impotent...
00:50:25 It is strictly forbidden!''
00:54:11 you are my dad, you are my brother, you are my sister!
00:57:22 That shows Alejandro's delicacy.
00:59:58 I don't know if you know this text.
01:02:34 Now you are going to be the lead actor in your movie! Okay?
01:05:33 Your father!
01:08:13 Who killed him?
01:11:03 And her mother, is she erased?
01:13:48 I say that because you move from the real father...
01:16:02 His vocation was a poet.
01:18:33 Ask him what was missing.
01:21:00 You are important.