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The Holy Mountain (1973)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:14

Rotten:3

Average Rating:6.9/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 54 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: This 1973 film continues the strange and surreal tradition that cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky began in his FANDO Y LIS and EL TOPO. Marrying mysticism with religious imagery, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN... This 1973 film continues the strange and surreal tradition that cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky began in his FANDO Y LIS and EL TOPO. Marrying mysticism with religious imagery, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN centers on the Thief, a man who is messianic in both appearance and ideals. He meets the Alchemist (Jodorowsky), a man who wishes to rid people of all the trappings of modern living and take them on a spiritual quest. Like Jodorowsky's other work, the plot is secondary to the visuals, which are at once bizarre and beautiful. [More]

Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Starring: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

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Jodorowsky's 1973 surreal fantasy is just too much to dig through.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment 1 Comment
07/13/07
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

a kaleidoscope of vibrant colours, free-floating archetypes and picaresque episodes, all packaged to disorient and confound us with its sheer exuberance, before finally bringing us right back to exactly who we are and what it is that we are seeing.

Full Review Source: Eye for Film | comment Comment
07/09/07
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Eye for Film

Not even Buñuel with a brainful of Woodstock’s bad brown acid could have made something this gloriously screwy.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
04/21/07
David Fear
David Fear
Time Out New York

Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain is a dazzling, rambling, often incoherent satire on consumerism, militarism and exploitation.

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04/18/07
Matt Zoller Seitz
Matt Zoller Seitz
New York Times
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Not the unsubtle 'what' he is saying in 'The Holy Mountain,' but the individualized 'how,' is filmmaker Jodorowsky's strength.

Full Review Source: ReelTalk Movie Reviews | comment Comment
04/15/07
Donald J. Levit
Donald J. Levit
ReelTalk Movie Reviews

This is an extraordinary visual concoction, loaded with stunning primary colors, anti-religious caricatures drawn from Diego Rivera and a succession of dreamlike, grotesque vistas worthy of Dalí at his most deranged.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
04/11/07
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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Jodorowsky loves to confront the viewer with endless brutality and grotesque decadence and degradation, but here he expresses it with a rich, densely visual imagination.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
03/16/07
Kevin Thomas
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Despite all its fanciful Buñuelesque surrealism and echoes of Tod Browning's Freaks, it's not that far removed from the pop-culture movies that surround it.

Full Review Source: Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | comment Comment
02/28/07
Ken Hanke
Ken Hanke
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

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.

Full Review Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | comment Comment
02/08/07
Bill White
Bill White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Neither for the faint of heart or the linear of thinker, The Holy Mountain qualifies both as a fascinating period relic and an enduringly transfixing jaw-dropper.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
02/02/07
Geoff Pevere
Geoff Pevere
Toronto Star
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Halfway through we're introduced to nine industrialists and politicians -- they narrate their heinous biographies in Godardian voiceover -- who embark up the title mountain to become immortal. Dude.

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
01/26/07
Ty Burr
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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Jodorowsky's greatest and most ambitious midnight movie, a wickedly outrageous masterpiece that towers over its better-known precursor El Topo... an ingeniously overstimulated film that could never be replicated today.

Full Review Source: Premiere Magazine | comment Comment
10/10/06
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Premiere Magazine

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

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/29/06
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It's slightly tedious going, but you certainly get plenty to look at, what with costumed frogs and lizards re-enacting the conquest of Mexico.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
02/09/06
Trevor Johnston
Trevor Johnston
Time Out

Jodorowsky appears to have satirical targets in his sights, but when the viewer is caught up in this barrage of images often playful, occasionally horrible, frequently beautiful, but always fascinating, it's hard to discern a coherent point.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
05/24/03
Channel 4 Film

More overtly religious and New Agey than Jodorowsky's other pictures, it describes a spiritual quest and slings in outrageous shocks at every opportunity, yielding many eyefuls and some occasional food for thought.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
11/13/02
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
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The icons, indirect references, and allusions – some obvious, most are ambiguous – occur with meticulous frequency. For the matter, even the most incidental detail or prop relays a history of meaning.

Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | comment Comment
11/13/02
Rumsey Taylor
Rumsey Taylor
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