THE HOLY MOUNTAIN

Showings

Chauncey -Theater 1 Sat, Apr 15, 2023 10:00 PM
Series Info
Series:Bijou After Hours
Film Info
Rating:R
Runtime:114 minutes
Director:Alejandro Jodorowsky
Year Released:1973
Production Country:Mexico
Language:Spanish
English

Description

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Presented by the Bijou Film Board, and as part of Bijou's After Hours program.
FREE for UI students (present student ID at box office) and $8.00 for the general public!

“This is an extraordinary visual concoction, loaded with stunning primary colors, anti-religious caricatures drawn from Diego Rivera and a succession of dreamlike, grotesque vistas worthy of Dal at his most deranged.” - Andrew O’Hehir, Salon.com

“Jodorowsky loves to confront the viewer with endless brutality and grotesque decadence and degradation, but here he expresses it with a rich, densely visual imagination.” - Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times

The scandal of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s flood of sacrilegious imagery and existential symbolism in The Holy Mountain is a spiritual quest for enlightenment pitting illusion against truth. The Alchemist (Jodorowsky) assembles together a group of people from all walks of life to represent the planets in the solar system. The occult adept’s intention is to put his recruits through strange mystical rites and divest them of their worldly baggage before embarking on a trip to Lotus Island. There they ascend the Holy Mountain to displace the immortal gods who secretly rule the universe.

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