A beautiful picture to behold. Dialogue was optinal.

Una de las cintas mas extrañas que he visto, llena de cargas simbolicas, metafisicas, y de una forma de ver las cosas demasiado extraña para ese tiempo, esta pelicula es precursora de un cine demasiado extraño.

Feel like I had this film figured out for awhile, but the symbolism eventually became very difficult to piece together. Definitely deserves, and requires, a second viewing, if not more. Nonetheless, I really enjoy this debut from the brilliant mind of Jodorowsky.

A pretty decent first effort from El Jodo.

Somewhat entertaining...until you hear that crippled lady on the wagon scream FANDO!!! for the nine thousandth time. Oh, and Fando was a bit of a dick.

You know how boring it is when someone wants to describe his meaningless dreams to you in minute detail? That's what this whole movie is like. The relationship between Fando and Lis had an intriguing Buñuellian dynamic to it, but it's handled so much better in El or Tristana or That Obscure Object of Desire. Jodorowski has always felt like a poor man's Buñuel to me, but especially so in this movie. Too much of it is adolescent sexual symbolism and random crap. No thanks.

When they did the Bonita Entierra song, I thought this was one of the greatest movies, I've ever seen. And it is. It's possibly the best nightmare you've ever had, while you weren't sleeping. A surrealist epic that covers the entire emotional spectrum of a human being. Nearly flawless.

One of the most horrific -- yet familiar -- relationships I've ever seen in a film, surrounded by a heavy atmosphere of jarring editing, overexposed lighting, an incredibly industrial soundtrack/score, and general surrealist nonsense, which stops this film from being too depressing.

This intriguing, sometimes appalling film portrays the trip of a couple into a post-apocalyptic wilderness, in search of a legendary city where your dreams come true. They meet many grotesquely weird figures along the way. Interesting camera work, very nice imagery (look at the burning piano!). A great film about feeling lost.

Visually, it's painful to look at, with washed-out, over-exposed black and white (mostly white) photography and a majority of scenes shot in quarries reminiscent of Z-grade monster pictures, and it gets progressively more depressing and difficult to watch. As a whole it's a bit of a creaking eyesore, but individually remarkable sequences make it worth watching, such as the amazing body-painting scene, and Fando's terrifying memories of his mother dying.

Extreme road-trippin'. But in all seriousness, there is something very pleasing about the whole film (the man/woman relationship dynamic, our propensity for sadomasochism) but some parts fall flat or feel boring. It felt abrasive without building needed tension, unlike in (notably) Santa Sangre. Still well worth seeing, though. I have a soft spot for films that cause riots.

the best thing about the movie is it is nearly perfect but the bad point is the answer of why it is not simply perfect since some parts of film are too boring. But I gave 92 because I never watch a film like that