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El Topo
Directed by
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Not Rated
1970
2h 5m
Western
,
Adventure
,
and more
7.2
80%
84%
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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
Brontis Jodorowsky
Son of El Topo
José Legarreta
Dying Man
Alfonso Arau
Bandit 1
José Luis Fernández
Bandit 2
David Silva
The Colonel
Ignacio Martínez España
Armless Man
Mara Lorenzio
Marah / The Woman
Paula Romo
Desconocida
Robert John
Hijo del Topo
Jacqueline Luis
Mujercita
Héctor Martínez
Maestro 1
Juan José Gurrola
Maestro 2
Víctor Fosado
Maestro 3
Agustín Isunza
Maestro 4
Ali Junco
Bandit 3
Gerardo Zepeda
Bandit 4
René Barrera
Bandit 5
René Alís
Bandit 6
Federico Gonzáles
Bandit 7
Vicente Lara
Bandit 8
Pablo Leder
Monk 1
Giuliano Girini Sasseroli
Monk 2
Cristian Merkel
Monk 3
Aldo Grumelli
Monk 4
Eliseo Gardea Saucedo
Cojo
Bertha Lomelí
Gitana
Carlos Lavenant
Verdugo 1
Eliseo Pereda
Verdugo 2
Pablo Marichal
Esclavo
Beatriz Beltrán Lobo
Señora 1
Carmen Lamadrid
Señora 2
Pepita González
Señora 3
Cecilia Leger
Señora 4
Elvira Agosti
Señora 5
Antonio Álvarez
Prisonero 1
Rubén C. González
Prisonero 2
Víctor Manuel Osorio
Prisonero 3
José Pérez Bustos
Prisonero 4
Eduardo Danel
Prisonero 5
Álvaro García
Prisonero 6
José Antonio Alcaraz
Sheriff
Felipe Díaz Garza
Ayudante
Patricio Pereda
Niño
Marcos E. Contreras
Boxeador 1
Arturo Silva
Boxeador 2
Julián de Meriche
Cura
Valerie Jodorowsky
Mujer Iglesia
José Luis González de León
Hombre Iglesia
Francisco González Salazar
Tendero
Pedro García
Hombre Zanahoria
El Topo Ratings & Reviews
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.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
A dreary, protracted exercise in sadomasochism.
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.
Lessons of Darkness
Nick Schager
Has lost little of the maddening, bewildering weirdness that made it a seminal midnight-movie phenomenon.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin
haunting and haunted, flitting at the edges of Jodorowsky's masculine fantasy
Orlando Weekly
John Thomason
A dated counterculture goulash long hyped as art by a blank generation desperate for something different.
Combustible Celluloid
Jeffrey M. Anderson
For the adventurous viewer, El Topo is a bizarre, colorful, unforgettable experience.
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.'
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.
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.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
[VIDEO ESSAY] For all of its easily mocked elements, "El Topo" is a work of mad cinematic genius that sticks.
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.
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