A powerful alchemist leads a Christ-like character to the Holy Mountain to seek immortality in this train-of-thought, cult classic film...
A powerful alchemist leads a Christ-like character to the Holy Mountain to seek immortality in this train-of-thought, cult classic film partly funded by John Lennon.
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84 %25 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
88 %13,142 reviewsAudience score rating
"Not even Buñuel with a brainful of Woodstock's bad brown acid could have made something this gloriously screwy."
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Time Out
Time Out"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."
—Time Out
Time Out"Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain is a dazzling, rambling, often incoherent satire on consumerism, militarism and exploitation."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"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."
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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles TimesThe Holy Mountain (1973) | Details
- Runtime
- 114
- Genre
- Drama, Fantasy
- Country of origin
- USA
