Fando y Lis

AroView: An anarchic, fascinating feature-length debut for Alejandro Jodorowsky, shaped loosely on Fernando Arrabal’s play. Unmistakably surrealist, this contains all the traces of Jodorowsky’s to-be-cemented freak out cinema, couched in the wacky mountain odyssey of two lovers in search of a mystical city and, as always, a higher meaning in life.

Trivia from IMDb: When the film premiered at the 1968 Acapulco Film Festival, the first screening erupted into a riot. Director Alejandro Jodorowsky had to leave the theatre by sneaking outside to a waiting limousine. When the crowd outside the theatre recognized him, the car was pelted with rocks. The following week, the film opened to sell-out crowds in Mexico City, but fights broke out in the audiences and the film was banned by the Mexican government. Jodorowsky himself was nearly deported and the scandal provided a lot of fodder for the Mexican newspapers.