Art - Artist Cinema

El Topo

Alejandro Jodorowsky

14 Aug 2012

7pm

Free

The Space

El Topo, first released theatrically in 1969, made Jodorowsky a household name with the counterculture crowd of the early 1970s.The film conflates classic American western and avant-garde European sensibilities with Zen Buddhism and the Bible, as master gunfighter and mystic El Topo (played by writer/director Jodorowsky) attempts to defeat four sharp-shooting rivals on a bizarre path to allegorical self-awareness and resurrection. 1970, 125mins, cert 18