To understand La Danza de la Realidad , one must understand the silence that preceded it. After the disastrous production of Dune in the mid-1970s (a legendary failure documented in the film Jodorowsky’s Dune ), the director retreated from Hollywood. For nearly 23 years, he did not direct a single feature film. He focused on comics (The Incal, Metabarons), psychomagic, and tarot. When he returned in his 80s, he didn’t try to recapture the fire of his youth. Instead, he did something far braver: he went home.
The setting of Tocopilla functions as a vibrant, carnivalesque stage. Jodorowsky fills the town with a chorus of marginalized individuals, including: Disfigured miners suffering from environmental neglect. Anarchist religious groups. Amputees marching through the streets. alejandro jodorowsky la danza de la realidad