El Topo Comments

  • Shanna 2023-02-28 08:18:17

    Giant cult! A mix of Mexican-style macaroni westerns, Godard's jump-start, Buñuel's surreal and Sam Pekin's gory violence, and the director is probably a Buddhist...

  • Rosemarie 2023-02-07 22:20:42

    - -. . . Jodorowsky's Westerns. . . Well. . ridiculous. . ....

  • Cory 2023-01-11 03:09:46

    The whole film is composed of symbolic pictures, it is a bit of a taste to watch the director comment on the...

  • Madyson 2022-12-01 20:04:58

    Pure Mexican flavor cult, actors still...

  • Garland 2022-11-11 03:32:43

    The master of formalism, the blood of Latin American magicism, the excitement and madness, and finally...

  • Leif 2022-10-31 09:05:22

    This is a very serious film, and the label of CULT is a bit narrow; many people emphasize that the story is incomprehensible, in fact, for this film, the story and content are secondary. It feels good, why should I...

  • Amos 2022-10-16 16:12:56

    1. Too many metaphors. 2. It is really hard to really understand the bright, dry, naked meaning of South America. 3. After reading it, I am desperate for human...

  • Roselyn 2022-09-28 17:44:58

    Young and immature Jodorowsky. The biggest feature of "Holy Mountain" and "Holy Blood" is that every frame and every second can make me ecstatic, but this one obviously didn't do that, but it doesn't matter after accepting this setting. From this film, we can also glimpse the development direction of his subsequent works-cartoon style, religious music, the mysterious power coming from the face, and the humanistic sentiment revealed from the bones-"Mole" should be his transformation work....

  • Lloyd 2022-09-13 10:19:14

    An amazing masterpiece of magical realism, the storytelling photography praises, and the stage and reality perfectly...

  • Winnifred 2022-08-27 23:36:20

    6.5/10. An anti-Western cult movie, it's interesting even if you don't understand...

Extended Reading

El Topo quotes

  • Master #2: I hate all that is mine, because it distances me from her divine presence.

  • The Colonel: Who are you to judge me?

    El Topo: I am God!

El Topo

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Language: Spanish Release date: April 15, 1971