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- 1970
- TV-MA
- Douglas Music Films
- 2 h 5 m
- 1970
- TV-MA
- Douglas Music Films
- 2 h 5 m
- 1970
- TV-MA
- Douglas Music Films
- 2 h 5 m
- 1970
- TV-MA
- Douglas Music Films
- 2 h 5 m
El Topo
65
7.0
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
65
60% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
33% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
65
60% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
33% Mixed
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Alejandro Jodorowsky’s movie has a strange, magical aura for cineastes.
One of the classic midnight movies of the Pink Flamingos -- Rocky Horror era, star-director Jodorowsky's metaphysical western about a violent wanderer plays like an especially gun-crazy Sergio Leone saga filtered through several layers of radical European/Latin American cinema and Christian and Buddhist mysticism. Zero cool in its day, it remains a striking film oddity. [16 Feb 2007, p.C4]
El Topo is a good deal more interesting and a good deal less hung up on its own pretensions than all my most intelligent friends had led me to believe.
Jodorowsky's is perhaps a prodigious, certainly a prodigal talent. What is most bothersome is not his chaotic cosmology but his coldness. He is so obsessed with allegorical meaning that El Topo misses any kind of full human resonance. It is instead a vivid if ultimately passionless passion play.
Jodorowsky plays with symbols and ideas and enigmas so promiscuously that the confusion may be mistaken for depth.
Unfortunately, Jodorowsky is no Bunuel -- nor a Leone, for that matter -- and El Topo’s bloody odyssey, involving endless heavily symbolic encounters with the bizarre and fantastic, expresses the eternal tug of war between the savage and the spiritual in human nature on the most obvious level and in the most ponderous fashion.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
7.0
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
7.0
86% Positive
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Production Company
Producciones Panicas
Release Date Dec 18, 1970
Duration 2 h 5 m
Rating TV-MA
Tagline The legendary cult classic
Website
http://www.el-topo.co.uk/
Awards
Ariel Awards, Mexico
• 3 Wins & 5 Nominations
Avoriaz Fantastic Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations