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Plot: The most powerful individuals in the solar system are out to become gods and rule the universe.
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MCT:September 1, 2008
this is the second film I've seen by Jodorowski and I can already say I like his style. The Holy Mountain shares ideas with The Mole, but it's better produced and heavier in content. I like occultism, so there are countless details to pay attention at.
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MCT:August 5, 2008Seriously...this director was on some serious drugs or I needed to be on some serious drugs to understand this movie. Sure I could see how some things in the movie could be 'symbols' but this movie is a terrible mess of images thrown at the viewer. Nothing made sense and I was quite often disturbed at what I was seeing.
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MCT:August 3, 2008
MAS DE LO QUE ESPERABA... BUENA, ACORDE CON LOS SIMBOLISMOS DE JODO... NO ME ABURRIO Y ESO ES DEMASIADO
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MCT:July 30, 2008
So odd and bizarre and still, I love it. However, the second half stepped down a notch in non-stop weirdness. I can watch the first half again (and again), and again (and again) and again. Jodorowsky takes advantage of surrealism; this is miles away from magical realism, so don't expect puzzle pieces to fit nicely together. Just sit back and see what Jodorowsky's distorted genius can achieve with a big budget.
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MCT:July 19, 2008for those who will watch this in its entirety and enjoy it, you will be a better person. as for everyone else, you're fucked.
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MCT:June 27, 2008
This is the Alejandro Jodorowsky film not the old silent one about mountain climbing, anyway this film had pretty much everything I wanted out of a movie. Every frame is visually engaging, it's easily one of the most visually dense films I've ever seen, but not in an eliptic David Lynch way, these are symbols, not emblems, and they represent ideas not included in the film as opposed to representing ideas in the film, simple right? It's a pinnacle merger of surrealism, satire, philosophy, and science fiction. The sets, the images and the story itself blow me away, and the ideas though chaotic at first flow together not seemlessly, but in a New Orelans Mardi Gras Parade kind of way, confused, drunk, and many limbed, but all ambling in the same general direction, a conclusion which breaks "the fourth wall" in more ways than one.
The story and I will it keep as simple as possible, is about a wondering thief, who meets an alchemist and joins with this group of the 9 wealthiest people on Earth(the lords of Industry who secretly control the material earth, each named after a different planet in the Solar System, like the Pantheon Roman Gods), who want to become Immortal by stealing the Immortalty from the 9 Immortal Men who sit on the Holy Mountain and trully rule the world in secret. What follows is a spiritual, psychologial, and if you had'nt guessed it yet, surreal journey of enlightentment.
This is not a druggie film with no plot and a bunch of crazy stuff, it might appear that way if you view it on drugs which completely incapacitate thought, or with no attempt to think and deliberate (which understandably is not everyones cup of tea) about what appears on the screen after it's gone, but the film is actually quite complex, if anything too complex. Jodorowsky is weaving together a lot of escoteric threads and symbols (the first scene is the Japanse Tea Ceremony, but you wouldnt know it unless you knew, someone else pointed it out to me, after about my fifth viewing) together to tell a quite simple story about the various ways we( and the contemporary audience of the 70's) attempt to escape death. If you interested in watching a gifted film maker at the height of his game paint a truly unique portrait of the world, look no further. If you want something truly bizarre and different because you've seen everything, see it. If you don't care much for symbolism, allegory, or metaphor, avoid this at all costs, there is no realsim here, but there is brilliance, and I don't use that word lightly. -
MCT:June 5, 2008
This highly symbolic and allegorical tale of enlightment and mysticism is a true feast for the movie-going soul. Alejandro Jodorowsky's follow up to "El Topo" is another visual delight; light on plot, but dense with occult signs and narration. My only issue with this film is its middle, which introduces several characters and fills us in on their background. The arrangement of these sequences one after another slows the progression of the film. However, these scenes are highly allegorical and memorable, many with humorous undertones that make them worth watching despite the recession in the plot. Fans of art films and Jodorowsky' work should see this, while it may not be enjoyable to a majority of viewers. However, if you ever want to take a chance and are bored with the run-of-the-mill action flicks and melodramas out there today, this film comes highly recommended.
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MCT:May 29, 2008
I fell if you are going to make movies of watch movies for a living you need ot watch this movie. it is well shot, but just so fucking bizaar. A must see for everyone, I like it in a weird aspect, but most people might not like it.
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MCT:May 28, 2008
Penso il miglior film di Jodorosky, un esperienza mistica prima che un film. Elevato simbolismo belllissime scene onirico-surreali. Una vera opera d'arte.
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MCT:May 13, 2008
This is the Alejandro Jodorowsky film not the old silent one about mountain climbing, anyway this film had pretty much everything I wanted out of a movie. Every frame is visually engaging, it's easily one of the most visually dense films I've ever se...(read more)en, but not in an eliptic David Lynch way, these are symbols, not emblems, and they represent ideas not included in the film as opposed to representing ideas in the film, simple right? It's a pinnacle merger of surrealism, satire, philosophy, and science fiction. The sets, the images and the story itself blow me away, and the ideas though chaotic at first flow together not seemlessly, but in a New Orelans Mardi Gras Parade kind of way, confused, drunk, and many limbed, but all ambling in the same general direction, a conclusion which breaks "the fourth wall" in more ways than one.
The story and I will it keep as simple as possible, is about a wondering thief, who meets an alchemist and joins with this group of the 9 wealthiest people on Earth(the lords of Industry who secretly control the material earth, each named after a different planet in the Solar System, like the Pantheon Roman Gods), who want to become Immortal by stealing the Immortalty from the 9 Immortal Men who sit on the Holy Mountain and trully rule the world in secret. What follows is a spiritual, psychologial, and if you had'nt guessed it yet, surreal journey of enlightentment.
This is not a druggie film with no plot and a bunch of crazy stuff, it might appear that way if you view it on drugs which completely incapacitate thought, or with no attempt to think and deliberate (which understandably is not everyones cup of tea) about what appears on the screen after it's gone, but the film is actually quite complex, if anything too complex. Jodorowsky is weaving together a lot of escoteric threads and symbols (the first scene is the Japanse Tea Ceremony, but you wouldnt know it unless you knew, someone else pointed it out to me, after about my fifth viewing) together to tell a quite simple story about the various ways we( and the contemporary audience of the 70's) attempt to escape death. If you interested in watching a gifted film maker at the height of his game paint a truly unique portrait of the world, look no further. If you want something truly bizarre and different because you've seen everything, see it. If you don't care much for symbolism, allegory, or metaphor, avoid this at all costs, there is no realsim here, but there is brilliance, and I don't use that word lightly. -
MCT:April 15, 2008
words cannot do this film justice. every second in this film is art. this is a movie that inspired so much and insipred so many people(like john lennon who said this film changed his life) pure genius!!!!!!!!
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MCT:April 14, 2008what can i say about this movie? it shocked me, disgusted me, and interested me. i felt like i was high when i was watching it. it was crazy.
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MCT:March 24, 2008
A totally absurd movie with more spirituality, sexuality, and insanity than you can shake a stick (or crucifix, or giant rod) at. Alejandro Jodorowsky definitely makes David Lynch look tame, and that's saying something. One hell of a fucked up movie.
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MCT:March 18, 2008
A towering midnight movie, surreal and fantastical throughout, but then bravely embraces reality at the end. Marvelously '70s.
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MCT:March 7, 2008
One of the standard-bearers for outsider film, Jodorowsky here serves up the usual farrago of arresting images, freaks, sacrilige, anti-absolutism, wooden acting and hackneyed dialogue. Also includes a chimp in full-lotus.
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MCT:January 13, 2008
The Alchemist: You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.
Les premières minutes s'écoulaient, et j'étais déjà mort de rire. The Holy Mountain débutait pathétiquement dans une ambiance déglinguée là où les sous-entendus ne manquaient pas et où le ridicule était loin de tuer. Au début, on se laisse bercer par les images et par l'explosion de couleurs qui nous mènent à peu près n'importe où et qui portent, insidieusement, à croire que le film n'en est en soi qu'un surréaliste. Mais, au fil des symboles troublants (et c'est ce qui est effrayant), le spectateur s'aperçoit qu'il avait tort. The Holy Mountain n'est pas surréaliste. Imaginez-vous regarder un film depuis une demi-heure à la rigolade, convaincu que chacune des images n'est qu'une grotesque plaisanterie, pour finalement vous apercevoir que chaque élément a été mécaniquement placé sur votre route dans un but définitivement précis: celui de procéder à l'une des plus grandes critiques cinématographiques. Une critique de l'histoire de l'humanité.
Jodorowsky est acerbe, il effraie et fascine à la fois. Dès qu'on le prend au sérieux, il est déjà trop tard pour faire demi-tour, parce qu'il ne vous lâche plus. Sans aucun remords, sans aucun scrupules, Jodorowsky assène un beau gros crachat visqueux au catholicisme et à l'histoire religieuse de Jesus de Nazareth (proclamé Jesus-Christ après sa mort) en mettant en scène l'histoire d'un être humain - ressemblant très étrangement au Christ - et en rebâtissant en quelque sorte sa vie, mais d'une manière, ma foi, incroyablement corrosive. On m'avait déjà parlé de Scorsese qui avait agi d'une manière semblable avec The Last Temptation of Christ, tandis que ce cher Jesus tournait finalement le dos à ses obligations et reniait son destin pour aller se la couler douce avec la belle Marie-Madeleine. Mais la critique que déploie The Holy Mountain dépasse l'entendement.
Cette figure du Christ rencontre donc un mentor, l'Alchimiste, d'ailleurs interprété par nul autre que Alejandro Jodorowsky lui-même, rôle dans lequel il a bien failli mourir réellement. Ce mentor l'amène à rencontrer des individus qui, en fait, représentent individuellement une planète du système solaire. Ensemble, ils auront tous un destin à accomplir. Mais ce destin est, avouons-le, franchement pathétique, et il écorche notre société par le fait même.
À ce titre, The Holy Mountain est un voyage, une expérience de vie assez particulière dans lequel on a le choix de se débattre ou de flotter au fil des images. La deuxième option est beaucoup plus agréable, croyez-moi sur parole, mais il faut bien prendre attention de ne pas se bruler. Car, je le répètes, le point de non-retour n'existe pas. Soit l'on est effrayé et l'on adore, soit l'on est effrayé et l'on crache.
Mais au fond, et c'est ça le plus terrifiant, c'est que le crachat finira certainement par nous retomber dessus. -
MCT:January 11, 2008
This is one of a kind, only his other films come close to it. The drunks at the drive-in used to honk in protest over Holy Mountain, one of its few general release venues, because they couldn't make heads or tails of it. Jodorowoski describes himself as a game player or "trickster" not a film maker. Much of Holy Mountain does, indeed, play tricks on the viewer. While the movie seems to be telling a story of some sort of quest to find cosmic enlightenment, this is only a thread which ties together Jodorowoski's many strange and hallucinogenic images. Jodorowoski frequently makes use of grotesque and revolting scenes, as well as bizarre music, to startle and unnerve the viewer. At some level he challenges the audience to make sense of his movie, if that is what it you'd call it, though not many have succeeded. With much nudity, violence and sexual content this is not a family movie and certainly will not please every taste.
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MCT:January 1, 2008
An over the top extravaganza, that blends reality as it is in the world, defining it. I can never quite get the opening sequence and I still wonder why the Jesus look-alike was chosen, but the entire film is like a discourse, the symbolisms have an approach to it, more like they are tangent to it than a major part, separate yet important, but the entire construction on this film is basically the delineation of morality and defunct spirituality among people, the scene where he asks the Jesus character if he thinks he is Jesus and then he sees the fight over bread was a fascinating scene, it really feels like a separate entity on a particular comnponent, one that links up but can be referred to separately. Really feels like a sketch if anything else and also, don't forget the memorable line,
"Zoom back camera"
Best line hands down in cinema. -
MCT:December 26, 2007
De loin le film le plus étrange qu'il m'ait été donné de regarder. Une suite de scènes liées de manière plus ou moins directe, comme une sorte de collage de visions qui se termine par une quête spirituelle. Les références au tarot se multipliant, il faut bien le connaître pour tout saisir, mais c'est quand même appréciable, ne serait-ce qu'en tant que collection de sketches. On y voit un vieillard qui arrache son oeil pour le presser dans la main d'une petite fille, un gigantesque "vagin" électronique, une multitude de castrations, etc. Seule la fin laisse un peu à désirer, mais le reste du film est un voyage assez particulier.
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MCT:November 9, 2007
Jodorowsky is either a bodhisattva, a con man, a few rabbits short of an acid trip or all of the above. Either way, he makes a darn fine art film that looks cool even if you don't get what the hell is going on. Which your probubly won't.
Just a hint, the dwarf without any hands or feet is The Thief's ego.
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