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El Topo
Directed by
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Not Rated
1970
2h 5m
Western
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Adventure
,
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7.2
80%
83%
7.1
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A mysterious black-clad gunfighter wanders a mystical Western landscape encountering multiple bizarre characters.
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Cast of El Topo
Alejandro Jodorowsky
El Topo / Director / Writer / Production Design / Costume Design / Original Music Composer
Brontis Jodorowsky
Son of El Topo
Mara Lorenzio
Marah / The Woman
David Silva
The Colonel
Paula Romo
Desconocida
Jacqueline Luis
Mujercita
Robert John
Adult Son of El Topo
Héctor Martínez
Maestro 1
Juan José Gurrola
Maestro 2
Víctor Fosado
Maestro 3
Agustín Isunza
Maestro 4
José Legarreta
Dying Man
Ignacio Martínez España
Armless Man
Eliseo Gardea Saucedo
Legless Man
Alfonso Arau
Bandit 1
José Luis Fernández
Bandit 2
Ali Junco
Bandit 3
Gerardo Zepeda
Bandit 4
René Barrera
Bandit 5
René Alís
Bandit 6
El Topo Ratings & Reviews
TIME Magazine
Jay Cocks
The film is by turns comic and profound, hysterical and pompous, fully complex enough to deserve more than a simple yea or nay.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] For all of its easily mocked elements, "El Topo" is a work of mad cinematic genius that sticks.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
... the story of 'El Topo' proves too scattered and weak to bear its digressions and vague symbols that suggest everything, anything and nothing.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Has lost little of the maddening, bewildering weirdness that made it a seminal midnight-movie phenomenon.
Q Network Film Desk
James Kendrick
its mixture of genre revisionism, religious mysticism, and shocking visuals felt new and wild and meaningful, at least to those who wanted to see it that way.
Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
John Beifuss
Alejandro Jodorowsky may be full of it, but I'm thankful that he spread it -- whatever it is -- across the screen in 'El Topo.'
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
While I truly do doubt that modern viewer will have much use for Jodorowsky's dated spiritual philosophy, the style with wich he expresses that philosophy is often quite exciting.
Orlando Weekly
John Thomason
A dated counterculture goulash long hyped as art by a blank generation desperate for something different.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Jeff Vice
As perplexing as large parts of it are, the film certainly isn't boring. And it's kind of fun trying to figure out what it's all supposed to mean.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
For the adventurous viewer, El Topo is a bizarre, colorful, unforgettable experience.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
haunting and haunted, flitting at the edges of Jodorowsky's masculine fantasy
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A dreary, protracted exercise in sadomasochism.
Oregonian
Shawn Levy
It's steeped in blood and sex and dream imagery and weird music and imparts a sense of heat and wonder and even revulsion in a way that always feels artful and exact.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
This is gutbucket Luis Buuel , surrealism on the cheap, and it hasn't dated well -- the blood is patently fake and the gunshots are dubbed.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
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.
Slant Magazine
Fernando F. Croce
El Topo would be part of the revolutionary, post-'60s movement of Antonio das Mortes and The Last Movie if its private mythology didn't belong so obviously to its maker's acid subconscious.
TV Guide
A mass of indecipherable symbols combined with obvious self-indulgence on the part of a writer-director-star Alexandro Jodorowsky make what could have been an entertaining western into one of the more pretentious films ever made.
New York Times
Roger Greenspun
El Topo is a good deal more interesting and a good deal less hung up on its own pretensions than all my most intelligent friends had led me to believe.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Jodorowsky dazzles us with such delicate mythological footwork that the violence becomes distanced, somehow, and we accept it like the slaughters in the Old Testament.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
An extravagant hodgepodge of hand-me-down surrealism, mysticism, Italian westerns, theater of cruelty, and Buuel -- more enjoyable for its unending string of outrages than for its capacity to make coherent sense.
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