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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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Those Years (1973)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.