Fresh
Not even Bunuel with a brainful of Woodstock's bad brown acid could have made something this gloriously screwy.
David Fear, Time Out New York
Overview
The Alchemist assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept's intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.
Director and cast
- Alejandro Jodorowsky Director
- Alejandro Jodorowsky as The Alchemist
- Horacio Salinas as The Thief
- Zamira Saunders as The Written Woman
- Juan Ferrara as Fon, He whose planet is Venus
- Adriana Page as Isla, She whose planet is Mars
- Burt Kleiner as Klen, He whose planet is Jupiter
- Valerie Jodorowsky Cast
- Nicky Nichols Cast
- Richard Rutowski Cast
- Luis Lomelí Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
83%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Alejandro Jodorowsky's Holy Mountain is a dazzling, rambling, often incoherent satire on consumerism, militarism and exploitation.
Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times
Fresh
This is an extraordinary visual concoction, loaded with stunning primary colors, anti-religious caricatures drawn from Diego Rivera and a succession of dreamlike, grotesque vistas worthy of Dali at his most deranged.
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com
Fresh
Jodorowsky loves to confront the viewer with endless brutality and grotesque decadence and degradation, but here he expresses it with a rich, densely visual imagination.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Neither for the faint of heart or the linear of thinker, The Holy Mountain qualifies both as a fascinating period relic and an enduringly transfixing jaw-dropper.
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star
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