Viva La Muerte

Aroview: This trippy anti-war rarity is a key work from the 1960s Mexican 'Panic Movement' that also produced EL TOPO.

Dir. by playwright Fernando Arrabal, it concerns a boy who longs for his missing father, apparently executed by the Franco government during the Spanish Civil War, but possibly still alive. Quickly transforming into a surrealistic journey of disturbing sexual, profane and political imagery, this has been seen as something of a 'cry from hell'. Even so, it has its own naive and obsessive integrity.

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