El Topo (1971)
Country: MEX
Technical: col 124m
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Mara Lorenzio
Synopsis:
A lone, black-clad gunfighter, first seen travelling with a naked boy across his horse, first avenges a massacre by pistoleros, then challenges the four master gunmen of the desert, whereupon he is betrayed, suffers a Christ-like death and is resurrected as a hermit in a community of freaks imprisoned inside a mountain by vicious townspeople.
Review:
Divided into arbitrary chapters such as Genesis, The Prophets, Psalms, this surreal 'tortilla and acid' western makes various biblical posturings and allusions that don't add up, and borrows from other directors from Luis Buñuel to Tod Browning. Featuring an array of degenerates, transsexuals, cripples and midgets, not to mention disembowelled horses and a hecatomb of rabbits, the film is guaranteed to offend and bore in equal measure. Deliriously violent and transgressively sexual, it sparked the Midnight Movie phenomenon in the States and was for many years withdrawn over a dispute between the distributor and Jodorowsky, only to be relaunched onto the unsuspecting public in 2007.
Country: MEX
Technical: col 124m
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Mara Lorenzio
Synopsis:
A lone, black-clad gunfighter, first seen travelling with a naked boy across his horse, first avenges a massacre by pistoleros, then challenges the four master gunmen of the desert, whereupon he is betrayed, suffers a Christ-like death and is resurrected as a hermit in a community of freaks imprisoned inside a mountain by vicious townspeople.
Review:
Divided into arbitrary chapters such as Genesis, The Prophets, Psalms, this surreal 'tortilla and acid' western makes various biblical posturings and allusions that don't add up, and borrows from other directors from Luis Buñuel to Tod Browning. Featuring an array of degenerates, transsexuals, cripples and midgets, not to mention disembowelled horses and a hecatomb of rabbits, the film is guaranteed to offend and bore in equal measure. Deliriously violent and transgressively sexual, it sparked the Midnight Movie phenomenon in the States and was for many years withdrawn over a dispute between the distributor and Jodorowsky, only to be relaunched onto the unsuspecting public in 2007.
Country: MEX
Technical: col 124m
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Mara Lorenzio
Synopsis:
A lone, black-clad gunfighter, first seen travelling with a naked boy across his horse, first avenges a massacre by pistoleros, then challenges the four master gunmen of the desert, whereupon he is betrayed, suffers a Christ-like death and is resurrected as a hermit in a community of freaks imprisoned inside a mountain by vicious townspeople.
Review:
Divided into arbitrary chapters such as Genesis, The Prophets, Psalms, this surreal 'tortilla and acid' western makes various biblical posturings and allusions that don't add up, and borrows from other directors from Luis Buñuel to Tod Browning. Featuring an array of degenerates, transsexuals, cripples and midgets, not to mention disembowelled horses and a hecatomb of rabbits, the film is guaranteed to offend and bore in equal measure. Deliriously violent and transgressively sexual, it sparked the Midnight Movie phenomenon in the States and was for many years withdrawn over a dispute between the distributor and Jodorowsky, only to be relaunched onto the unsuspecting public in 2007.