30. Film Festival della Lessinia
Bosco Chiesanuova (Italia)
23 August - 1 September 2024

A thief with the features of Jesus Christ, to free himself from the yoke of his oppressors, finds refuge at the top of a high tower. This is actually the laboratory of a mysterious alchemist, who will subject the thief to a series of initiatory rituals and then introduce him to the seven most powerful people on Earth. Together, they must reach the top of the Sacred Mountain, where nine sages guard the secret of immortality. A manifesto not only of the poetry of its author, but also of the entire counterculture movement that was taking shape after 1968, La montaña sagrada becomes a perfect melting pot in which religious, esoteric and alchemical, psychoanalytic and philosophical references mix without interruptions: an ambitious fresco that has its pivot in the symbolic summa of the Sacred Mountain, the landing point of an initiatory reawakening in which the spectator also participates, where the line between reality and fiction is dilated to the point of rupture.

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  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Writer, playwright, poet, artist, filmmaker and tarot expert, a French national of Chilean origins, Jodorowsky's cinematographic work reflects the years of counterculture at the turn of the '70s, in particular the trilogy that includes Fando y Lis (1968), El Topo ( 1970) and La montaña sagrada (1973), considered his masterpiece.