124 mins |
Rated
R18
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring Brontis Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau
Playing as part of Academy's MIND-F*** FILM FESTIVAL June 15th - July 8th.
A mind-blowing 'acid-western' which shocked and bedazzled audiences upon its controversial original release, EL TOPO single-handedly invented the American midnight movie phenomenon...
Jodorowsky's (THE HOLY MOUNTAIN) most violent and notorious film sees the director play 'The Mole' of the title: a black-clad. master gunfighter. In the first half, EL TOPO journeys across the desert dreamscape with his young son (Brontis Jodorowsky) to duel with four sharp-shooting Zen masters, who each bestow a Great Lesson before they die. In the second half, El Topo becomes the guru of a subterranean tribe of deformed outcasts who he must liberate from depraved cultists in a neighbouring town.
A countercultural masterpiece that ingeniously combines iconic Americana symbolism with Jodorowsky's own idiosyncratic surrealist aesthetic, EL TOPO is an incredible journey through nightmarish violence, mind-bending mysticism and awe-inspiring imagery.
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Playing as part of Academy's MIND-F*** FILM FESTIVAL June 15th - July 8th.
A mind-blowing 'acid-western' which shocked and bedazzled audiences upon its controversial original release, EL TOPO single-handedly invented the American midnight movie phenomenon...
Jodorowsky's (THE HOLY MOUNTAIN) most violent and notorious film sees the director play 'The Mole' of the title: a black-clad. master gunfighter. In the first half, EL TOPO journeys across the desert dreamscape with his young son (Brontis Jodorowsky) to duel with four sharp-shooting Zen masters, who each bestow a Great Lesson before they die. In the second half, El Topo becomes the guru of a subterranean tribe of deformed outcasts who he must liberate from depraved cultists in a neighbouring town.
A countercultural masterpiece that ingeniously combines iconic Americana symbolism with Jodorowsky's own idiosyncratic surrealist aesthetic, EL TOPO is an incredible journey through nightmarish violence, mind-bending mysticism and awe-inspiring imagery.