El Topo (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1970)

This is probably one of the most insane features ever made. Lest that sound too much like a recommendation, it's also muddled with its targets and shot through with a Russ Meyer approach to editing and production values. It's from the era of Zabriskie Point, after all.
Picture a cross between a spaghetti Western and a Christ allegory, with Tod Browning's Freaks and some Nicolas Roeg outtakes thrown in, all drenched in Mexican Christian mysticism. There, you have Jodorowsky's self-indulgent pontifications when he gets to direct and act at the same time. You can read it as a critique on Mexican history or organised religion or on blind faith or see it as a religious parable for our times, albeit one which is wilfully obtuse and gleefully mental, camping it up at unexpected moments. Jodorowsky, the imp, would probably be happy with any of these interpretations. It's never less than interesting just because you don't know what's coming next, and never more than disjointed for its farting about.

5/10