CINEMA interview by DONATIEN GRAU chilean-born alejandro jodorowsky traveled to mexico in the 1960s with marcel marceau’s mime troupe and refused to leave. he found a land of surrealism and strangeness that fed his appetite for the bizarre. in mexico, he created 100 avant-garde plays in 10 years and moved into cinema. in his underground cult classics, “el topo” (1970), “the holy mountain” (1973), and “santa sangre” (1989), he conjugated the libertarian spirit of the late 1960s with latin-american folklore and magical realism. these radical films embodied his quest for spiritual realization DONATIEN GRAU — You were born in Tocopilla, Chile. As a young man, you traveled to France to become a poet, then you went to Mexico in the 1960s. Can you share your impressions of the place back then? ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY — My image of Mexico dates from the early 1960s, when I arrived in Mexico City with…