Fando and Lis

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Country:Mexico

Director:Alejandro Jordorowsky

Year: 
1968

Duration: 
96

Summary:

Jodorowsky’s first feature is loosely based on a play written by Fernando Arrabal in that he filmed it as he remembered it without recourse to the text. The result in a perverse third world fable that is eager to stretch the boundaries of the acceptable. The film follows Fando and his paraplegic girlfriend Lis searching amid a destroyed world for a mythic city called Tar where all their wishes will be fulfilled. But, instead, they are corrupted and driven mad. After a full scale riot broke out at the premiere of the film in Acapulco the film was banned from Mexico by the government, and Jodorowsky himself was nearly deported for the madness the film had created.