The Rainbow Thief (1990)

User Rating:

6.7/10   

Director:

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Writer:

Berta Domínguez D. (writer)

Release Date:

19 January 1994 (France)

Genre:

Fantasy | Drama

Tagline:

You can just live. Or you can live it up.

Plot:

A petty crook, in search of the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, hopes to cash in by befriending the heir to a huge fortune. |

Plot Keywords:

Model Ship | Bazaar | Singing | Crowd | Surrealism

Cast

Peter O'Toole	...	Prince Meleagre
Omar Sharif	...	Dima
Christopher Lee	...	Uncle Rudolf
Francesco Romano	...	Marcus
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Jude Alderson	...	Hortensia
Brigitte Barclay	...	Rainbow Girl
David Boyce	...	Clown
Jane Chaplin	...	Lady Jane
Brian Conway	...	Ambulance Attendant
Carolyn Cortez	...	Rainbow Girl
Peter Dennis	...	Winter
Joanna Dickens	...	Ambrosia
Berta Domínguez D.	...	Tiger Lily
Edward Donovan	...	Rolf
Linzi Drew	...	Madame Rainbow
Ian Dury	...	Bartender
Debbie Ferrari	...	Rainbow Girl
Amanda Jane Forbes	...	Rainbow Girl
Rachel Garley	...	Rainbow Girl
Chris Greener	...	Caesar, the Healer
Kay Hamilton	...	Miss Fenwick
Brian Hibbard	...	Madame Claire
Tom Hibbert	...	Ambulance Attendant
Kirsten Imrie	...	Rainbow Girl
Stephen Jenn	...	Michelle
Sheila Keith	...	Bernadette
Andy McEven	...	Barker
Declan Mulholland	...	Pug
Ken Parry	...	Snow
Ian Ricketts	...	Casket
Jean-Yves Thual	...	Colonel Heywood (as Jean-Yves Tual)
Marion Turner	...	Rainbow Girl
Kate Versey	...	Ambulance Attendant

MPAA:

Rated R for some nudity.

Runtime:

87 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby

Certification:

USA:R

Filming Locations:

Gdansk, Poland

Company:

Rink Anstalt

Trivia:

Only theatrically released in France in 1994.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in La constellation Jodorowsky (1994)

rainbows over Europe

This is a film which has immediate respect as a Europena art house film. Often this hides flaws which can be disastrous. This is not the case here. Peter O Toole is in it. Even at his worst laziest over the top performances he is still watchable. Some may call Alexandro Jodorowsky's piece sentimental and self indulgent. Indeed in its attempt to fulfill magical realism there are some oddities parading through this. The use of a circus as a parable for Christ's compassion and attempt to help an insane world is used for an excuse for indigence and longueurs. The rainbow girls are all very pretty models and I already knew about them from painting of Kirsten Imrie, Rachel Garley an Bridgette Barclay by th e actor Stephen Armourae who promoted this film because of its abstract arty script and the use of Tarot,as he is also a psychic. Alexandro Jodorowsky attempts here again to use imagery and animals to convey a message, this makes it memorable if somewhat obscure. The trouble is the people who need to receive his message are not going to have the patience for a Europena art house film with all its obliqueness.