Viva la Muerte
MovieTitle | Viva la muerte |
User score | 5.8 |
Release date | May 12, 1971 |
Genre | Drama, War |
Director | Fernando Arrabal |
Production country | France, Tunisia |
Production companies | SATPEC, Isabelle Films |
Run time | 90 min. |
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?