Part of Dreams and Nightmares, this month on Curzon12. From legendary cult filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, High Mountain) comes an epic imaginary autobiography depicting both the wonders and the hardships of existing in the substance we all call reality. True to form, Jodorowsky takes us on a strange, mystical, fantastical and deeply surreal journey that no one else could; except this time the subject is his own early life, being raised by his strict, Stalin-adoring father who has plans to assassinate the right-wing Chilean president... ★★★★ "A major talent with plenty more to show us" - Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out ★★★★ "An explosion of pantheistic freakiness and personal pain – euphoric, erotic and despairing" - Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian