Fando and Lis(Fando y Lis)
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Mexico · 1970
1h 37m
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring Sergio Kleiner, Diana Mariscal, María Teresa Rivas, Tamara Garina
Genre Adventure, Fantasy
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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.
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Maybe the only Jodorowksy film whose story resembles something akin to normal, Fando y Lis famously caused a riot on the day it premiered in Mexico. Watching it today, even with the general acceptance of sexuality in cinema and media at large, you can still see why this was so provocative and how Jodorowsky's characteristic mode of representation––indulging in the weird and occult in all of their strangenesses––continues to influence avantgarde directors (and Kanye West!) to this day.