Fando y Lis (1968)
Genre: Fantasy / Experimental
Duration: 93 minuten
Alternative title: Fando and Lis
Country:
Mexico
Directed by: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Stars: Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal and María Teresa Rivas
IMDb score:
6,7 (6.646)
Releasedate: 2 February 1970
Fando y Lis plot
"See this film before it sees you"
Fando and Lis are a young couple traveling to the city of Tar. Lis is handicapped and is helped by Fando by pushing her in a car or carrying her in his arms. During the journey they come into contact with a number of unusual situations and characters.
Reviews & comments
stephan73
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Fando y Lis is a strong debut by the surrealist Jodorowsky. The basis of his better-known films is powerfully laid down here. Ideas, symbolism and elements of this film would all be reflected in Holy Mountain and, to a greater extent, El Topo.
Yet Fando y Lis is more powerful, rougher and more unpolished.
It has become a truly incomprehensible avalanche of images, all of which linger on your retina. Story-wise it is therefore impossible to tell, except that Fando and Lis are looking for their promised land, Tar.
What kind of country Tar may be and who the people (memories?) They meet along the way are, and remain a question mark. Because even in the audio commentary, which is on the Fantoma OOP DVD, Jodorowsky can't make clear what he means by it.
But none of that matters, because this tidal wave immediately manages to secure a place in my top ten.
5*
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Knisper
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Jodorowsky must be an engaging personality. He goes into the desert on weekends with dozens of extras. And not just film students, but people of all ages, whom he makes do the craziest things. Very interesting, although it is clear that he is still searching, but very clearly a product of the times. In the course of the film, however, it becomes avenging that the film is not going anywhere (incidentally, a shortcoming that I see with El Topo and Santa Sangre). He shouldn't have it from the tension arc. Still an interesting vehicle.
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De filosoof
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This first film by Jodorowsky is also about a man's journey to enlightenment, in this case it is symbolically the search in the desert between the ruins of the ruined world for the mythical city of Tar where knowledge of the secrets of life can be found. and find bliss. Much progress is not made: the suggestion is that the Heaven of Tar is reached only in or after death while on Earth one remains chained to pain, conflict and sin. The film is full of symbolism about death and sexuality, in which all kinds of subconscious drives and fears from psychoanalysis seem to be discussed in a surrealistic way. There is also an ongoing thematic thread about dolls in all kinds of forms, in which Fando's fiancé Lis, who travels with him as a paralyzed woman, is herself a doll and where sexual abuse is always lurking; in combination with the other theme, the suggestion seems to be that we as puppets or marionettes are looking for freedom like Lis will be healed in Tar or in their dreams (which freedom or redemption, however, is only found in Tar or death).
The film appears as an absurdist theater or an experimental film inspired by Godard, among others, and, despite the surrealistic symbolism and consistent storyline, never seems to rise above that level: Jodorowsky still seems to be looking for his own style here and nowhere yet reaches the genius of [url =https://www.moviemeter.nl/film/5778#5129445]El Topo (Film, 1970) or La Montaña Sagrada (Film, 1973).
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