Review – El Topo

I’ll bet that back in 1970 this was something really revolutionary. However, nearly four decades later it plays more like what it really is: a mix of spaghetti western satire, bizarre art movie and celebration of sexual fetishes. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky has a good eye for color, but he puts it to such strange and tedious use that it’s hard to appreciate this as anything other than a relic of its time. Oh, and it’s extremely hard on the animals. See if desperate