SWOON Film Screening - El Tropo

Next up, on Thursday July 9th we will be screening Alejandro Jodorowsky's 1970 acid Western, 'El Topo'.

Here's what Roger Ebert had to say about it:

 “El Topo” is a picaresque journey past the principal myths and symbols of human culture, shot in the style of an incredibly bloody, violent Italian Western.

It weaves a web about you, and you’re left with two impulses. One is to accept it on its own terms, as a complex fantasy that uses violence as the most convenient cinematic shorthand for human power relationships. The other is to reject it as the work of a cynic, who is simply supplying more jolts and shocks per minute than most filmmakers. >>

We will settle the question next Thursday at Swoon 🙂

Screening to commence at 6:30PM. The film goes for 2h5m.

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