Chile
Australian Premiere

POESÍA SIN FIN

Endless Poetry

In Santiago de Chile during the thrilling years of the 1940s and 1950s a twenty-year-old Alejandro Jodorowsky decides to become a poet against the will of his conservative Jewish family. He finds his way into the inner circle of the artistic and intellectual avant-garde of the time and meets Enrique Lihn, Stella Díaz, Nicanor Parra and many other promising but anonymous young writers who will become the masters of Latin America’s modern literature. Totally immersed in this world of poetic experimentation, they live together as few have dared to live before: sensually, authentically, freely, madly.

Endless Poetry, the second in Jodorowsky’s proposed cycle of five cinematic memoirs (the first was 2013’s The Dance of Reality), is a work of transporting charm and feeling. With an ingratiatingly wide-eyed and adventurous autobiographical hero (played by the filmmaker’s youngest son, Adan Jodorowsky) it is dotted with his trademark phantasmagorical conceits, which are like bursts of comic-book magic realism. Yet more than any previous Jodorowsky film (El Topo, Holy Mountain, Santa Sangre), it’s also a work of disciplined and touching emotional resonance.

Director:
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Cast:
Adan Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Brontis Jodorowsky, Alejandro Jodorowsky
2016 • 128 MINS • FANTASY / DRAMA CHILE / JAPAN / FRANCE Spanish with English subtitles
15+ (exemption)
Felliniesque and moving…Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Endless Poetry’ is the most accessible movie he has ever made, and it may also be the best.
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