Synopsis
A portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
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Cast
- Adan JodorowskyAlejandro
- Brontis JodorowskyJaime
- Pamela FloresSara / Stella Díaz Varín
- Leandro TaubEnrique Lihn
- Alejandro JodorowskyOld Alejandro
- Jeremias HerskovitsAlejandro as a child
- Julia AvendañoLittle Girl
- Bastián BodenhöferGeneral Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
- Carolyn CarlsonMaria Lefevre, tarot reader
- Ali Ahmad Sa'Id EsberAlejandro / Andrés Racz
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
Make no mistake: Endless Poetry is still very much a Jodorowsky film, dotted with his trademark phantasmagorical conceits, which are like candified bursts of comic-book magic realism. Yet more than any previous Jodorowsky opus, it’s also a work of disciplined and touching emotional resonance. - 91
The Film Stage
The final sequences about loss, and art as a “cure” (in Jodorowsky’s own words), are heart-wrenchingly powerful. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
Jodorowsky keeps circling back to the question of who he is and how poetry is inextricably linked with how he experiences the world. - 80
Empire
Vibrantly recreating a seminal period in Jodorowsky's personal and artistic development, this bullishly played saga has enough quirky detail, audacious incident and visual panache to sweep the storyline through its less persuasive phases. - 80
The Guardian
It’s a real flight of fancy. - 70
Screen Daily
If the film exasperates and exhausts, which it does, there is also the knowledge that before too long there will also be moments of surreal comedy, freewheeling invention and genuine tenderness. - 67
The Playlist
Once it ends, you may be panting from exhaustion while still appreciating that Endless Poetry is greater than the sum of its parts as it feels naturally necessary and appropriately organic to the series. - 67
The A.V. Club
Of course, it’s self-indulgent, pushed even further into patience-testing territory by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who delivers some of the ugliest camerawork of his career.
