Fando y Lis (1967)
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Reviews Counted: 9 Fresh: 6 Rotten:3 Average Rating: 6.4/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 2 mins
Synopsis: Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky (EL TOPO, SANTA SANGRE), this strange classic was "lost" for 30 years. It tells the tale of 2 young people who search through a destroyed world for a mythic city called Tar, where it is believed that all of one's wishes can come true. Instead, along the way, they... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Director: Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Very much a late '60s freakout, tricked out with car cemeteries and action painting in the nude, the movie is fake-profound but seldom dull.
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02/26/08
Jodorowsky's lyrical fantasy leaves Fellini and Buñuel spluttering in its dust.
02/26/08
unlike in Jodorowsky's later, longer works, here the parade of oddballs, freaks and degenerates never seems to have much drive or direction.
07/06/07
An adorable, preposterous mutant film from the heyday of international do-your-own-thing moviemania.
08/29/06
Top Critic
For all its invocations of theater of cruelty, Fando and Lis hardly ever scares up anything stronger than unpleasant whimsey.
05/09/05
Top Critic
Undisciplined but not without effective passages, Fando & Lis isn't for all audiences, a work of provocation as much as a work of art.
10/30/01
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