A film based on Fernando Arrabal's 1960 play, an absudist update of the Crucifixion - Jesus is the lead in a garage band - should be dated by now. Its bizarre reversals of role and tone, its casual sex and even more casual cruelty, hark back to the style of earlier days, when WAITING FOR GODOT made tragi-comic meaninglessness both an art form and a social comment. The fact that...
Fascinating and challenging, Alexandro Jodorowsky is a multi-talented person : director of cult-movies (EL TOPO, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, SANTA SANGRE... ), founder of the « Panique » movement, performer of provocative happenings. mime artist, succesful comic strip writer (the INCAL, ALEPH TAU, THE WHITE LAMA...), animator of the « Mystical Cabaret », Tarot ca...
"The Hamburg Syndrome": As scientists discuss the merits of prolonging life at Hamburg's congress centre, a dangerous disease is spreading and threatens the city. Everybody who gets infected becomes mad and finally dies - in an weird embryonic position. The authorities panic and react to the disease by declaring a useless state of emergency. Furthermore, the vaccination that is...
Fernando Arrabal编剧和主演的超现实电影。
Casanova lives in the suburbs with his mother. He has grown up without ever ceasing to be a child over whom she watches jealously. He is nothing without her, yet he dreams of leaving home and meeting women. They loathe and adore each other. Every day he goes to the Gare Saint-Lazare, often taking with him a wicker trunk containing a rubber dummy whi...
The Spanish Civil War, as experienced by the town of Villa Ramiro. The local count and his Fascist nephews ally with the rebels; the count's son, indifferent to politics at the outset, later makes a choice; the town's teacher, Antonio Garcia, a pacifist, tries not to take sides but to inspire the children with ideas; a beautiful eccentric woman, Vandale, brings leadership and s...
又是一部费尔南多的超现实主义的电影,比《死亡万岁》晚了三年，完成与1973年。也可能正因为这三年，导演的思想以及艺术手法更加成熟。这个电影中导演抛弃了政治上的想法，迈向了更加广阔的自然与现代，文明与原始冲突的主题，母与子之间性冲突也不单如《死亡万岁》中儿子对母亲的性 萌动。 情节依然有一条主线，一个男子杀了自己的母亲，开车来到了沙漠，遇到了一个侏儒，然后产生了感情，把侏儒带回了文明社会，一起分享他的财产，同时警察所代表的国家机器又在追捕这个男子。全片中所蕴涵的冲突有许多，最明显的是，文明与原始，自然...
