EL TOPO

A bizarre, ultra-violent, allegorical Western, EL TOPO (1970) is set in two halves that have widely been compared to the Old and New Testaments of the bible. In the first half, Jodorowsky plays a violent, black-clad gunfighter who, accompanied by his naked son, sets off on a murderous mission to challenge four zen masters of gunfighting, and learns from each of them a Great Lesson before they die. In the second half, El Topo sets out to find personal redemption, secluding himself in a subterranean community to learn the ways of peace, but unfortunately death is never far away.
First released as an underground film, it was thanks to John Lennon that the film was acquired by Allen Klein of ABKCO who bought the rights to El Topo, and then financed Alejandro Jodorowsky’s next film The Holy Mountain.
“THE RETURN OF THE ORIGINAL PSYCHEDELIC HEAD TRIP WESTERN”
GUARDIAN GUIDE
“LEGENDARY… UNMISSABLE”
SATURDAY TELEGRAPH
“VIOLENT, VISIONARY, VITAL”
4 stars EMPIRE
“SHOWING UNCUT FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE 1970 CULT CLASSIC”
THE TIMES KNOWLEDGE
“I'M GLAD THAT THIS FILM IS NOW SEEING ITS REBIRTH. ENJOY! “
YOKO ONO
"THE KING OF CULT CINEMA - A UNIQUE VOICE"
JONATHAN ROSS
“EL TOPO CAN LAY CLAIM TO BEING THE GREATEST FILM EVER MADE”
LOS ANGELES FREE PRESS
“THE LANDMARK FILM”
ALAN JONES
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