Fresh
The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple yea or nay.
Jay Cocks, TIME Magazine
El Topo
The definitive cult spaghetti western
1970 · 2h 4m · Not Rated
Adventure, Drama, Western
Directed by
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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El Topo
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.
Director and cast
- Alejandro Jodorowsky Director
- Alejandro Jodorowsky as El Topo
- Brontis Jodorowsky as Son of El Topo
- Mara Lorenzio as Marah / The Woman
- David Silva as The Colonel
- Paula Romo as Desconocida
- Jacqueline Luis as Mujercita
- Robert John as Adult Son of El Topo
- Héctor Martínez as Maestro 1
- Juan José Gurrola as Maestro 2
- Víctor Fosado as Maestro 3
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
80%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A dreary, protracted exercise in sadomasochism.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
The movie's lure is sensual and unflagging; that's what makes it, for all its arty absurdity, the last great movie of the 1960s.
Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
Rotten
This is gutbucket Luis Bunuel , surrealism on the cheap, and it hasn't dated well -- the blood is patently fake and the gunshots are dubbed.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
Fresh
You may find it a tiresome, macho relic -- or a ragtag circus wandering through a fantasy realm part Treasure of the Sierra Madre, part Tolkien's Middle-earth.
J. Hoberman, Village Voice
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