El Topo (Le surréalisme au cinéma)

El Topo 

Mexico 1970 | Alejandro Jodorowsky | vostEN | 124’ | digital | Cast : Alejandro Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky

An outlaw, El Topo defies the Four Masters of the Desert for the love of a woman. After having defeated them, his wife betrays him. His new life as a holy man begins, and El Topo decides to liberate a community of outcasts...

« Inventively composed, beautifully photographed and boasting lakes of blood, shoe fetish action, mystical iconography and dwarf pantomime – often in the same scene – it’s by turns mesmerising, grotesque, surreal, satirical, rousing and impenetrable. One of the original publicity taglines had it about right: ‘What it all means isn’t exactly clear, but you won’t forget it.’ » (Time Out)