Endless Poetry (2016)
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
A portrait of the director’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s–1950s, 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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Brontis Jodorowsky (who made his screen debut in El Topo and was his father’s choice to play Paul Atreides in the director’s famed, ill-fated adaptation of Dune) returns as the stern, difficult patriarch of the family.
If you are at all familiar with the movies of madman director Alejandro Jodorowsky — like the ’70s cult hits “El Topo” or “The Holy Mountain,” or his aborted effort to adapt Frank Herbert’s “Dune” — then you have an inkling of the divine weirdness that fills his autobiographical drama “Endless Poetry.”
In 2010, he was reunited after 30 years with Michel Seydoux, Jodorowsky’s producer on his famously ill-fated attempt to film Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel, Dune.
His meager output (eight films as a director since 1968’s Fando and Lis) was as much about taking various diversions as it was recovering from his failed involvement prepping an adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune.