Alejandro Jodorowsky’s mystical magnum opus The Holy Mountain established the Chilean cult filmmaker as the preeminent auteur of surrealist cinema and caused solid controversy at the 1973 Cannes Film Festival for its sacrilegious imagery and raw existential symbolism. Using the original 35mm negative, this 4K restoration was restored in its original aspect ratio, with enhanced, original surround-sound audio.
In this mystical masterpiece, Jodorowsky himself plays the role of The Alchemist, a guru who guides a group of pilgrims, each representing a planet in the solar system, on a magical quest to Lotus Island where they must climb the Sacred Mountain in search of spiritual enlightenment.
