The Holy Mountain (1973 Mexico / US)
a film by Alejandro Jodorowsky
La montaña sagrada (The Holy Mountain, reissued as The Sacred Mountain) Is a cult film written and directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky who also participated as actor, composer, set designer, and costume designer. The film was produced by Allen Klein & John Lennon after Jodorowsky scored an underground phenomenon with El Topo (1970). It was shown at various international film festivals in 1973. However the film was never given wide release.
A Christlike figure wanders through bizarre, grotesque scenarios filled with religious and sacrilegious imagery. He meets a mystical guide (the alchemist, played by Jodorowsky) who introduces him to seven wealthy and powerful individuals, each representing a planet in the solar system. These seven, along with the protagonist, the guide and the guide's assistant, divest themselves of their worldly goods and form a group of nine who will seek out the Holy Mountain, in order to displace the gods who live there and become immortal.
Alejandro Jodorowsky or Alexandro Jodorowsky born in Tocopila, Chile in 1929, is an actor, director, writer, producer, composer, mime, comic book writer and psychotherapist with parents of Russian origin. He is particularly known for having directed a handful of esoteric, surreal and shocking films, and for having written several comic books.
The revered cult filmmaker once stated, "I ask of cinema what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs." He is also a New Age spiritualist, and one of the world's leading researchers of the Tarot. Jodorowsky has lately committed a lot of attention to developing a psychological therapy called "Psychomagic" which aims to heal the psychological wounds suffered in the early stages of life.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alejandro_Jodorowsky
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