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Long Live Death

6.4

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Original title

Viva la muerte

Year

1971

Running time

86 min.

Country

France

Director

Fernando Arrabal

Screenwriter

Fernando Arrabal, Claudine Lagrive. Novel: Fernando Arrabal

Cast

Music

Jean-Yves Bosseur

Cinematography

Jean-Marc Ripert

Producer

Co-production France-Tunisia;

Isabelle Films, Satpec

Genre

Drama | Surrealism. Childhood. Psychological Drama

Synopsis

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father's arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red. Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father's arrest. Sometimes we witness Fando imagining explanations for what's going on; sometimes we see him at play, alone or with his friend Thérèse. Oedipal fantasies and a lad's natural curiosity about sex and death mix with his search for his mother's nature and his father's fate. Will Fando survive the search?

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Long Live Death

1971

Fernando Arrabal

6.4

(519)