El Topo (1970)

Recommended

Mexico

Feature Film

Original Title: El topo

Writer/Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky

Cinematographer: Rafael Corkidi

Composers: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Nacho Méndez

Cast: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Mara Lorenzio, Brontis Jodorowsky, Robert John, Jacqueline Luis, Julien de Meriche, Paula Romo

A wandering gunslinger abandons his perma-naked seven-year-old son to be with a woman that he has just met, who challenges him to kill the desert’s four greatest gunfighters in order to earn her love, before becoming a Christ-like figure to a mountain dwelling community of incest-induced cripples, in Jodorowsky’s frequently hilarious, irony-drenched, and generally rather bonkers allegorical western. Iain.Stott