Review of The Holy Mountain (1973) by Sigeki_Ogino — 26 Jan 2023
According to an acquaintance, underground film critic Aboul Clanché, "Cinema is a shoddy product with reduced meaning, and therefore, aesthetically, masterpieces are born from shoddy products.".
Reading Bernie Bartels' film essay in the Spanish entertainment magazine Bound, the words "In the art of cinema, when an image burns in the mind, it is either vomit or euphoria" come to mind.
And this film is somewhere between disgusting and pleasurable, reaching the height of bad taste at a time when one should either be incontinent or masturbating in a drive-through theater with something as beautiful and smelly as a rose.
Holy Mountain is both a fine film and a playful visual magic show in which twisted freaks rush to the laboratory of the "old man in the test tube" seen through the foggy darkness of the freak show.
And... By Tuck Ducky (blogger, deceased), "an artful abolitionist film realized on film.".
If this film had been made in the silent film era, it might have surpassed Chaplin.
This review of The Holy Mountain (1973) was written by Sigeki_Ogino on 26 Jan 2023.
The Holy Mountain has generally received very positive reviews.
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