The Holy Mountain (1973)

Original title

La montaña sagrada

Directed by

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Genre

drama film, fantasy film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Mexico

Runtime

1h 54m

Rated

R

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 1,028 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A thief who looks like Jesus joins a group of powerful and flawed people on a spiritual quest to reach a mountain inhabited by immortals. The journey involves bizarre rituals and strange encounters. The film satirizes organized religion and consumer society.

surrealpsychedelicbizarrevisually ambitioustransgressivemysticaldreamlikeunsettlingsatirical

What happens

The Holy Mountain (Spanish: La montaña sagrada) is a 1973 Mexican avant-garde surrealist film directed, written, produced, co-scored, co-edited by and starring Alejandro Jodorowsky, who also participated as a set designer and costume designer on the film. Following Jodorowsky's underground hit El Topo (1970), acclaimed by both John Lennon and George Harrison, the film was produced by the Beatles manager Allen Klein of ABKCO Music and Records. John Lennon and Yoko Ono put up production money. It was shown at various international film festivals in 1973, including Cannes, and limited screenings in New York and San Francisco. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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