🎬 EL TOPO

About

El Topo is a 1970 Mexican film directed, written, scored and starred in by Alejandro Jodorowsky. It follows a black-clad gunfighter crossing a metaphysical desert, weaving together violent western imagery, psychedelic surrealism and esoteric philosophy. The film sparked the Midnight Movies phenomenon in New York and counted John Lennon and Dennis Hopper among its admirers.