Alexandro Jodorowsky's 'El Topo' has created a furore across the water. A Chilean of Russo-Polish extraction, Mr. Jodorowsky, who also wrote the screenplay, has one of the more pointless and arrogant films of recent years. It's diverse episodes are striking, in the sense that a mailed fist is, and occur under biblical heads- "Genesis," "Prophets," "Psalms," and "The Apocalypse."
To attempt a description of the result would be like describing a street accident through the eyes of a ghoul. Mr. Jodorowsky, some might hazard overweeningly, tries to encompass a psuedo-religious history of Christianity and after, in the rectangle of a cinema screen. Whether he is for or against the notion of a god or gods remains in doubt. Images he chucks up in abundance, but the thing is so crude as to make one despair of a generation that can find nutriment therein.