Fando and Lis (1968)
Fando and his partially paralyzed lover Lis search for the mythical city of Tar. Based on Jodorowsky's memories of a play by surrealist Fernando Arrabal. (imdb)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Written By: Alejandro Jodorowsky, Fernando Arrabal
Starring: Tamara Garina, Sergio Kleiner, Juan José Arreola, Rene Rebetez, Diana Mariscal, María Teresa Rivas
AKA: Fando y Lis
Country: Mexico
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Fando and Lis belongs to 13 collections
1. Surreal (collaborative - 47 stars)
2. Psychotronic Film and Video Guides (collaborative: moderated by Gregzilla - 40 stars)
3. Directorial debut (collaborative: moderated by djross - 16 stars)
4. Capsules, guest reviews, list candidates... (366weirdmovies) (collaborative: moderated by sesito71 - 4 stars)
5. Coheed's Films I Need To See Or Try To Track Down (public: Coheed - 3 stars)
6. Tom & Bitches' Infinite Watchlist (collaborative - 1 star)
7. Top 100 Blind Spots (public: wokelstein - 1 star)
8. MUBI TR (collaborative: moderated by ozdemibr)
9. DtC Doubling the Canon 2021 Nominees (collaborative: moderated by lineuphere)
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| Feb 11, 2021 |  |
LarsVonTrier | 2 31st |
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the narration reminds me of pan's labyrinth. and i thought that the "flashing cut" was first done by easy rider, but it seems it was this movie. also a little sound clip of this movie is in the song "hawthorn passage" by agalloch.
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| Jan 16, 2021 | Lonewolf2003 | 48 7th |
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It's beautifully shot in b/w, greatly directed and excellently edited, so esthetically it's a very good, maybe even great movie. Too bad than that the content was mostly incoherent vagueness that left me intellectual and emotional cold. Some scenes have a nice felliniesque playfulness in it, but most is typical self-indulgent 60s surrealistic nonsense.
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| Jan 08, 2021 |  |
SheWas | 80 87th |
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Toxic relationships psychomagic 101
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| Jul 28, 2018 |  |
pyrosexual | 60 12th |
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Pretty weird Jodorowski's debut was a boring, pretentious French film but I guess also makes sense in a weird way.
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| Apr 16, 2017 |  |
Apovoncrier | 80 70th |
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| Jan 22, 2017 |  |
Asmar03 | 70 23rd |
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I prefer "the holy mountain" and "santa sangre".
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| Jul 25, 2014 |  |
lisa- | 6 83rd |
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like a super experimental version of la strada. i'm sure that's a terrible comparison, but i'll make it anyway. i wasn't sure to begin with, but eventually everything seemed to point to coming face to face with past trauma. it's equally as valid to take it at face value: a surreal linear narrative that we need only sit back and experience. maybe an anarchist exercise. or a feminist one, even, because there's an emotional core here not seen in the two other jodorowskys i've seen.
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| Jun 11, 2014 |  |
Shellish | 80 76th |
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Meanders heavily, yet strangely pleasing, and gives me something to think about... It's a "hmm"er.
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| Jun 11, 2014 |  |
Suture Self | 10 96th |
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As I see it: a film on wandering and being lost, and the burdening consequences it can have on those you love.
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| May 21, 2013 |  |
TrixRabbi | 32 3rd |
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Insufferable. I don't know what it is, I love El Topo and Holy Mountain but this just came off as Jodorowsky with his head up his ass throwing whatever bullshit symbolism he could think of at the wall. On top of it all I hate the characters and just wanted Fando to get hit in the head with a rock and die. All the magic of El Topo is completely absent and we're left with something that feels like a high schooler wrote it.
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| Apr 07, 2013 |  |
closedmouth | 70 41st |
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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.
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| Mar 26, 2013 |  |
Neonman | 84 77th |
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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.
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| Jul 05, 2012 | mennowo | 88 98th |
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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.
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| Dec 07, 2009 |  |
ZayanK | 77 49th |
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A pretty decent first effort from El Jodo.
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| Jul 26, 2009 | Cinecitta | 100 81st |
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A beautiful picture to behold. Dialogue was optinal.
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| May 28, 2009 |  |
Mentaculus | 74 61st |
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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.
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| Apr 07, 2009 |  |
richiodo | 94 95th |
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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.
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| Mar 30, 2009 | emredost | 92 86th |
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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
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| Feb 25, 2008 |  |
amerigo | 99 99th |
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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.
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| Sep 24, 2007 |  |
Shmendrek | 2 33rd |
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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.
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| Feb 07, 2007 |  |
MartinTeller | 34 3rd |
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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.
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| Average Percentile 55.23% from 350 Ratings |  |