[repack]: Fando And Lis

Loosely based on Fernando Arrabal’s play (Jodorowsky changed the titular “Fando” from a child to a man), the film follows the young, desperate couple Fando (Sergio Kleiner) and his paraplegic lover Lis (Diana Mariscal). They journey through a post-apocalyptic, surreal wasteland in search of the mythical city of “Tar”—a place promised to offer peace, ecstasy, and spiritual fulfillment. Their pilgrimage is less a road trip than a Stations of the Cross through degradation, violence, and absurdity.

(originally Fando y Lis ) is a foundational work of the , existing as both a 1962 play by Fernando Arrabal and a landmark 1968 surrealist film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky . The narrative follows the titular couple as they trek through a post-apocalyptic wasteland in search of the mythical city of Tar , a place of total enlightenment and eternity. I. The Absurdist Journey Fando and Lis

At its core, Fando and Lis tells the story of two characters bound by a desperate, symbiotic need. Fando is a young man searching for his identity; Lis is his paralyzed lover, a beautiful woman whose legs are useless, leaving her dependent on Fando for movement. Together, they embark on a journey to reach the mythical city of Tar. (originally Fando y Lis ) is a foundational

Jodorowsky’s film adaptation was a direct manifestation of these ideals. He took Arrabal’s text, which was already steeped in the absurdity of the Theater of the Absurd, and amplified it with his own idiosyncratic visual language. The film strips away conventional narrative logic, replacing it with a dream (or nightmare) logic where emotions manifest as physical deformities and landscapes shift without explanation. The Absurdist Journey At its core, Fando and