The Holy Mountain

Name: The Holy Mountain
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Released: November 29, 1973
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Adriana Page, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Burt Kleiner, Horacio Salinas, Juan Ferrara

1973

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ABKCO Films | Release Date: November 29, 1973 | R

Starring: Adriana Page, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Burt Kleiner, Horacio Salinas, Juan Ferrara, Luis Lomelí, Nicky Nichols, Richard Rutowski, Valerie Jodorowsky, Zamira Saunders

Summary: In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a powerful alchemist leads a Christ-like character and seven materialistic figures to the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Rating: R

Runtime: 114 min

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Bill White

So extreme in its sacrilege that it achieves a kind of sacredness, The Holy Mountain is a transcendental feast of the grotesque and the sublime. Read full review

Noel Murray

Witty, disgusting, eye-popping, and incomprehensible, The Holy Mountain is every bit as pop-philosophical as Jodorowsky's earlier work, but it also contains original visual ideas nearly every 30 seconds, from frogs in armor to crucifixes made out of painted bread. Read full review

Steve Dollar

A landmark of visionary filmmaking pitched somewhere between magic ritual and surreal burlesque. Read full review

Michael Wilmington

If you liked El Topo, this is more of the same, with less violence. [02 Mar 2007, p.C5]

Jonathan Rosenbaum

On the whole, enjoyable nonsense. Read full review

Chris Cabin

The Holy Mountain is nothing if not exuberant while cartwheeling its way through the cosmos and back through the non sequitur-strewn plains and deserts, towns and cities, ridges and ranges of Mexico. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

The mise-en-scene is packed with colorful, often shocking images (blood and body wastes are recurring motifs) but orchestrated in a creative delirium. Read full review

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Tsvete

Mar 25, 2021

Alejandro Jodorowski manages to convey his philosophical understanding of the world. Through the symbolism and the extremely influential surrealistic shots, a complete work of art comes to life in front of the spectators. Knowledge in the field of religion and esotericism is required due toAlejandro Jodorowski manages to convey his philosophical understanding of the world. Through the symbolism and the extremely influential surrealistic shots, a complete work of art comes to life in front of the spectators. Knowledge in the field of religion and esotericism is required due to the presence of many images related to tarot, the meaning of the planets, even playing out important past events. This is a film that keeps you in the dark until the very end, where there is a sharp change in the whole idea of the viewers and participants about the truth of reality, the path to wisdom and the difficulties and fears that follow it. The end is stunning to the mind and makes a comparison between reality and existence, body and soul, love and ego.… Expand

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