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| Douglas Music Films | Release Date: December 18, 1970 |
Starring:
Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfonso Arau, Ali Junco, Brontis Jodorowsky, Federico Gonzáles, Gerardo Zepeda, José Legarreta, José Luis Fernández, René Alís, René Barrera
Summary:
A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
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El Topo is never boring, but neither does it hit the trippy heights of something like The Saragossa Manuscript, or the best of Luis Buñuel and Federico Fellini. And with its emphasis on one virile stud's journey to manhood—with women grasping at his cloak—El Topo isn't just drippily New Age-y, it also offers the kind of stealthy paternalism common to the counterculture.
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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.
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