Beautiful cinematography, great acting from Baranovskaya as the titular, and it serves as a very interesting illustration of early Soviet cinema, culure, and ideology.
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The Holy Mountain 1973
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
While Jodorowsky's apparent obsessions with psychedelic visuals, religious and occult symbolism, sex, animals, and amputees may not be everyone's cup of tea, I highly recommend this film to any cinephile out there.
The storyline doesn't follow a straightforward pattern and may be hard to follow at times during your first viewing - think David Lynch on acid - but in the end it all comes together quite nicely. Besides, I think this actually made the film as a whole much…
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