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A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
“Having broken away from my illusory self, I was desperately seeking a path and a meaning to life.” This phrase perfectly sums up Alejandro Jodorowsky’s biographical project: reconstituting the incredible adventure of his life. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in 1929 in Tocopilla, a coastal town on edge of the Chilean desert, where this film was shot. It was there where he discovered the fundamentals of reality, as he underwent an unhappy and alienated childhood as part of an uprooted family.
The story of the Herreras, a middle-class family living in Santiago of Chile. The plot is set between 1982 and 1989, in the military dictatorship, and revolves around historical events during the 80's, especially the economic crisis of 1982 and the 8.0 magnitude earthquake in Santiago.
A couple is having a wedding anniversary date in their own apartment. He is at the kitchen, concentrated, cooking a heart-shaped chocolate cake, insistently interrupted by their chihuahua dog, which wants him to play fetch with her. Meanwhile, his curvy wife is getting ready: bathing, dressing in her sexiest clothes, and applying make up. Their movements and actions are, without them knowing, synchronized and mimicked by the other, and they lead to the bedroom. What about the dog?!
