Fando and Lis

You know how boring it is when someone wants to describe his meaningless dreams to you in minute detail? That's what this whole movie is like. The relationship between Fando and Lis had an intriguing Buñuellian dynamic to it, but it's handled so much better in El or Tristana or That Obscure Object of Desire. Jodorowski has always felt like a poor man's Buñuel to me, but especially so in this movie. Too much of it is adolescent sexual symbolism and random crap. No thanks.

Insufferable. I don't know what it is, I love El Topo and Holy Mountain but this just came off as Jodorowsky with his head up his ass throwing whatever bullshit symbolism he could think of at the wall. On top of it all I hate the characters and just wanted Fando to get hit in the head with a rock and die. All the magic of El Topo is completely absent and we're left with something that feels like a high schooler wrote it.

Una de las cintas mas extrañas que he visto, llena de cargas simbolicas, metafisicas, y de una forma de ver las cosas demasiado extraña para ese tiempo, esta pelicula es precursora de un cine demasiado extraño.

Somewhat entertaining...until you hear that crippled lady on the wagon scream FANDO!!! for the nine thousandth time. Oh, and Fando was a bit of a dick.

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the narration reminds me of pan's labyrinth. and i thought that the "flashing cut" was first done by easy rider, but it seems it was this movie. also a little sound clip of this movie is in the song "hawthorn passage" by agalloch.

It's beautifully shot in b/w, greatly directed and excellently edited, so esthetically it's a very good, maybe even great movie. Too bad than that the content was mostly incoherent vagueness that left me intellectual and emotional cold. Some scenes have a nice felliniesque playfulness in it, but most is typical self-indulgent 60s surrealistic nonsense.

Toxic relationships psychomagic 101

Pretty weird Jodorowski's debut was a boring, pretentious French film but I guess also makes sense in a weird way.

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I prefer "the holy mountain" and "santa sangre".

like a super experimental version of la strada. i'm sure that's a terrible comparison, but i'll make it anyway. i wasn't sure to begin with, but eventually everything seemed to point to coming face to face with past trauma. it's equally as valid to take it at face value: a surreal linear narrative that we need only sit back and experience. maybe an anarchist exercise. or a feminist one, even, because there's an emotional core here not seen in the two other jodorowskys i've seen.

Meanders heavily, yet strangely pleasing, and gives me something to think about... It's a "hmm"er.

As I see it: a film on wandering and being lost, and the burdening consequences it can have on those you love.

Visually, it's painful to look at, with washed-out, over-exposed black and white (mostly white) photography and a majority of scenes shot in quarries reminiscent of Z-grade monster pictures, and it gets progressively more depressing and difficult to watch. As a whole it's a bit of a creaking eyesore, but individually remarkable sequences make it worth watching, such as the amazing body-painting scene, and Fando's terrifying memories of his mother dying.

One of the most horrific -- yet familiar -- relationships I've ever seen in a film, surrounded by a heavy atmosphere of jarring editing, overexposed lighting, an incredibly industrial soundtrack/score, and general surrealist nonsense, which stops this film from being too depressing.

This intriguing, sometimes appalling film portrays the trip of a couple into a post-apocalyptic wilderness, in search of a legendary city where your dreams come true. They meet many grotesquely weird figures along the way. Interesting camera work, very nice imagery (look at the burning piano!). A great film about feeling lost.

A pretty decent first effort from El Jodo.

A beautiful picture to behold. Dialogue was optinal.

Extreme road-trippin'. But in all seriousness, there is something very pleasing about the whole film (the man/woman relationship dynamic, our propensity for sadomasochism) but some parts fall flat or feel boring. It felt abrasive without building needed tension, unlike in (notably) Santa Sangre. Still well worth seeing, though. I have a soft spot for films that cause riots.

the best thing about the movie is it is nearly perfect but the bad point is the answer of why it is not simply perfect since some parts of film are too boring. But I gave 92 because I never watch a film like that

When they did the Bonita Entierra song, I thought this was one of the greatest movies, I've ever seen. And it is. It's possibly the best nightmare you've ever had, while you weren't sleeping. A surrealist epic that covers the entire emotional spectrum of a human being. Nearly flawless.