Alejandro Jodorowsky's Fando Y Lis

2020 • 96 minutes

About this movie

Fando y Lis in this stunning new, 4k restoration overseen by director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Fando, and his crippled partner Lis, seek the legendary fabled city of Tar, where Lis hopes to be cured of her handicap. She is haunted by her past as a little girl tormented by adults. Fando, sometimes resentful, has taken on the burden of carrying her or pushing her on a wobbly ramshackle cart to reach their goal. Together, they wander a stark landscape of ruins and rubble, populated with characters of the bizarre, grotesque, licentious and salacious. Fando Y Lis can be seen as a brutal and scathing examination of the destructive co-dependence of two lovers conflicted by anguish and demands they put on one another, each unable to live without the other, pushing to the point of violence, exploitation, and madness. On another level, it is an allegory of the unconscious, internal passions and demons of the individual, torn between expectations and the lustful, torrid hidden desires and fears.

Ratings and reviews

Rubbish.