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Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
2016, Chile/UK/France, 128 min
Spanish with English subtitles
At 88 years, the rebel-shaman filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky has enjoyed a provocative career. His 1970 acid western, El Topo, crowned him godfather of the midnight-movie craze. His phantasmagoric 1973 masterpiece, The Holy Mountain, was ripped off by Kanye West for the design of his Yeezus tour. His impossibly ambitious, unfinished Frank Herbert adaptation of Dune was chronicled in Jodorowsky’s Dune. Endless Poetry picks up in the 1940s with Alejandro and his Jewish-Ukrainian folks moving from their provincial home to open a garment shop in Santiago. Dazzlingly shot on location by cinematographer extraordinaire Christopher Doyle (Wong Kar Wai’s In the Mood for Love), this colour-splashed sequel to his previous film Dance of Reality draws a heartfelt if comically absurd portrait of a young man growing into his identity by leaning into his creative passions. Thirsting to become an artist but taunted by his tyrannical father, Alejandro escapes into the night and the loving (sometimes lusty) embrace of manic, carnivalesque bohemians.
