This is the work of someone coming to terms with their past, transmuting the traumas of childhood into the building blocks of adult awareness.

At first the film seems overly stagey, and those with little time for circus acts may find it irritating, but when Jodorowsky hits his surreal stride.

You may not know what to think of it, but you'll be glad that it exists.

I leave with the feeling that it's a rather bland surrealist comedy by Jodorowsky, almost always presented as a dull exercise in narrative self-indulgence and aesthetic pretension. [Full review in Spanish]