This film screened on the 20th of February 2020.

While devotees may have been delighted to see another Jodorowsky film appear so soon after Santa Sangre, The Rainbow Thief was met largely with bemusement on release, and remains a title about which the director himself is at best ambivalent, largely due to his experiences working with ‘stars’, particularly Peter O’Toole, who is here reunited with Lawrence of Arabia co-star Omar Sharif. When eccentric millionaire Rudolf Von Tannen (Christopher Lee) falls into a coma, his similarly idiosyncratic nephew Meleagre (O’Toole) moves to the sewers to await his inheritance. There he takes up with petty thief Dima (Sharif), who believes he will be due a share of what is to come. Although largely restrained on this production, the film nonetheless retains a definite Jodoroskowian flavour.

Screening as part of the Alejandro Jodorowsky retrospective, February 5th to 23rd 2020.