Alejandro Jodorowsky's TUSK (1980) Christopher Mitchum
1047DVD
Alejandro
Jodorowsky's Rarest Film... in English!
Original French title: POOLORN L'ELEPHANT
director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
starring: Cyrielle Clair · Anton Diffring · Serge Merlin · Christopher
Mitchum · Michael Peyrelon
Alejandro
Jodorowsky's unique blend of mysticism and action is the foundation for
this remarkable film. An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on
the same day, share a common destiny. The story is set in India, when
it was still colonized by the British. The two main characters here are
an elephant named Tusk and Elise, a young lady born into the powerful
Morrison Estate. As a youngster, Elise was once saved by Tusk and she
promised to protect him always. Her schooling takes Elise to England for
a few years; upon her return to the plantation, the young woman is horrified
to discover that Tusk has escaped and poachers are hunting him for the
ivory. She joins with American guide Richard Caairn (Christopher Mitchum)
to save the animal.
This
film and RAINBOW
THIEF are Alejandro Jodorowsky's rarest projects. While TUSK
doesn't relish in the director's usual brand of violence and shock, it
still contains some of the bizarre energy that marks Jodorowsky's work.
It features exceptionally unique music throughout performed mostly by
the synth band Styx (!) and includes many remarkable segments like the
elephant vs. elephant battle and the psychedelic day-for-night chase.
Jodorowsky lensed this motion picture just prior to his SANTA
SANGRE which incidentally also included some memorable elephant
segments. Alejandro
Jodorowsky wrote the script based on a novel, PooLorn L'Elephant,
by Reginald Campbell.
A French
production in English language with French subtitles; fullscreen format
(4:3), totally uncut version (114 minutes), DVD encoded for ALL REGION
NTSC WORLD FORMAT. Extras include trailers.
Violence/Animal
Action and Cruelty
for Mature Audiences
