The Holy Mountain
In a corrupt, greed-fueled world, a Mexican master leads a Christ figure and seven wealthy and powerful disciples to a mountain of immortal wise men, the Holy Mountain, where they hope to achieve enlightenment.
6 November 1948, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, England, UK
1906, Campeche, Campeche, Mexico
October 9, 1917 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
7 February 1929, Tocopilla, Tocopilla, II Región, Chile
27 April 1953, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
5 December 1938, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
8 November 1943, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
February 16, 2011
So loaded with symbols and religious references that the frames of the films flash by as if Jodorowsky were shuffling a deck of his beloved tarot cards...April 18, 2007
Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain is a dazzling, rambling, often incoherent satire on consumerism, militarism and exploitation.January 26, 2007
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.February 12, 2010
The Old and New Testament scrambled as a most sustained 'shroom hallucination, one sight at a time out of Alejandro Jodorowsky's bottomless tankJune 08, 2011
A rambling stream-of-consciousness quest that - in its final, self-conscious act - celebrates the primacy of the filmed image.April 21, 2007
Not even Buñuel with a brainful of Woodstock's bad brown acid could have made something this gloriously screwy.April 11, 2007
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.May 16, 2011
starts off with great promise but quickly descends into a kind of monotonous spiral of escalating pretension and wearisome shock tacticsJuly 09, 2007
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.February 02, 2007
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.July 13, 2007
Jodorowsky's 1973 surreal fantasy is just too much to dig through.March 16, 2007
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.