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El Topo (1970)

Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky

Drama

Most recently watched by sleestakk

Overview

El Topo decides to confront warrior Masters on a trans-formative desert journey he begins with his 6 year old son, who must bury his childhood totems to become a man.

Rated NR | Length 125 minutes

Actors

Alejandro Jodorowsky | Brontis Jodorowsky | José Legarreta | Alfonso Aráu | José Luis Fernández | David Silva | Ignacio Martínez España | Mara Lorenzio | Paula Romo | Robert John | Jacqueline Luis | Héctor Martínez | Juan José Gurrola | Víctor Fosado | Agustín Isunza | Ali Junco | Gerardo Zepeda | René Barrera | René Alís | Federico Gonzáles | Vicente Lara | Pablo Leder | Giuliano Girini Sasseroli | Cristian Merkel | Aldo Grumelli | Eliseo Gardea Saucedo | Bertha Lomelí | Carlos Lavenant | Eliseo Pereda | Pablo Marichal | Beatriz Beltrán Lobo | Carmen Lamadrid | Pepita González | Cecilia Leger | Elvira Agosti | Antonio Álvarez | Rueben Gonzales | Víctor Manuel Osorio | José Pérez Bustos | Eduardo Danel | Álvaro García | José Antonio Alcaraz | Felipe Díaz Garza | Patricio Pereda | Marcos E. Contreras | Arturo Silva | Julián de Meriche | Valerie Jodorowsky | José Luis González de León | Francisco González Salazar | Pedro García

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Viewing Notes

Reading online apparently Jodorowsky is the father of the midnight movie, when John Lennon and Yoko Ono had El Topo playing at midnight shows and it went on for a year.

I can’t imagine sitting through this until 2am, not because it’s bad but because it’s such a heady, strange film. There’s a ton to love about it, but I most certainly liked the first half way better than the 2nd. I just thought the whole gun fighter thing was more interesting than the 2nd half which seemed to deal with his redemption. In fact it really seems like 2 different movies in a lot of ways.

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