unconventional genius
The Holy Mountain review
By
Munkki from London
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13th April 2011
Jodorowsky's countercultural classic certainly poses challenges to the contemporary viewer - to a certain extent we have forgotten how to watch thoughtful cinema - a skill lost in the perpetual avalanche of Hollywood product. This film certainly is not product. Nor is it simply a trip or surrealistic nonsense. With a clear lineage that draws in Bunuel and Rusell among others Jodorowsky positions his film within a history and a culture from which grounded position he stages his blistering assault on catholicism (in particular) and the establishment (in general). Framed in images that are a once ridiculous, hilarious, disturbing and beautiful, his meditation on transformation has great presence and remains relevant and intriguing despite some dated aspects of the staging. Well worth watching as a film and as a piece of cinematic history. * Viewers of a sensitive nature should be aware that animals very definitley were injured in the making of this film
