2016 ‘Poesía sin fin’ Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
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.
Adan Jodorowsky Brontis Jodorowsky Pamela Flores Leandro Taub Alejandro Jodorowsky Jeremias Herskovits Julia Avendaño Bastián Bodenhöfer Carolyn Carlson Ali Ahmad Sa'Id Esber Kaori Ito Carlos Leay Hugo Marín Felipe Pizarro Sáenz De Urtury Felipe Ríos Rodrigo Velasquez Paula Espinoza Alejandro Sieveking Clara María Escobar Jorge Magni Charles Bustos Romina Landerer Juan Quezada Felix Venegas Lucas Balmaceda Luz María Yacometti Agustín Moya Rodrigo Orellana Miguel Ángel Pérez Show All…
Poesia Sem Fim, 無盡之詩, Ποίηση χωρίς τέλος, 끝없는 시
This was my first Jodorowsky film and holy fuck was this a trip. Heartfelt surrealism and majestic stories help make this hilarious, dark, sad, and a profound piece of work. I need to see more Jodorowsky cause I loved this so much. Like if Cosmos was good.
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Crossing this off of my Little Hype-a-de-Hype List
This is what a great filmmakers career should and always could come to. Self-reflectiveness has always been a tough yet often rewarding subject in film. Just look at how Tarkovsky put his childhood memories into the complex Mirror. In some way Jodorowsky does somewhat the same except for the fact that he is at once a lot more literal in his approach and, of course, a lot more surreal.
Following directly on his 2013 masterpiece The Dance of Reality, Endless Poetry recounts the years following his coming of age, his early twenties in which we see how his personal life turned him into…
Endless Poetry is Alejandro Jodorowsky's sequel to The Dance of Reality and is yet another autobiographical work. However it is less compelling as an overall piece. The central conflict, of a young Alejandro wanting to be a poet while his authoritarian father wants him to be a doctor, is a quite standard thematic setup. It's also basically a rehash of the emotional backdrop of the previous film. It's just a bit cliché, which is strange to say for a Jodorowsky picture. Endless Poetry seems to have a lot of surrealism that exists just for the sake for it. Mostly it is unimaginative and predictable surrealism too. Having said all that however, Endless Poetry does have strengths. Some of the ideas…
A sequel to my least favorite Jodorowsky film (The Dance of Reality), Endless Poetry ends up being my favorite Jodorowsky film. Absolutely bizarre and absurd in a way that only Jodorowsky can make work. One of the most personal films I've ever seen from an auteur.
The final movement of Jodorowsky’s autobiographical fantasy, a direct sequel to The Dance of Reality, is astounding. Here, a great filmmaker expresses his powers as a cinematic poet to reflect on death, loss and how to live in a world so antithetical to our dreams and desires.
Much of this is spoken about, but lyrically, a lot of it is evoked through intelligent devices and surreal imagery. It feels like a culmination of the film’s promise. Sporadically, we have Jodorowsky intruding into the narrative to speak to the characters - here it is perfect. We also have a gregarious, visual set piece that brings The Holy Mountain to mind. This is what Jodorowsky can do at his height: create a…
Alejandro Jodorowsky creates an autobiographical film about his beginnings in the avant-garde art scene in Santiago and his struggle to break free from parental oppression in order to unleash his creativity. True to his style, the Chilean director delivers a bizarre and imaginative piece of work about a fragment of his life that unfortunately feels excessive in its artificiality, eccentricness, and even superficial in its introspection. Poesía sin fin is a simple story full of the infinite resources that abound in Jodorowsky's filmography, which at this point feel dated, redundant, tired, and seem to indicate that the director has nothing new to offer. A reflective, nostalgic, rather narcissistic, and very tedious film, but one that possesses a truly poignant ending that, in a way, almost makes the journey worthwhile.
32/100
I’m way behind and it’s Christmas Eve, so allow me to save some time by just referring you to my thoughts on The Dance of Reality, which (apart from a few specific examples) apply equally well here. To paraphrase John Cleese in the cheese shop, it was an act of the purest optimism to have watched the movie in the first place.
A Self-Portrait of the Narcissistic Artist as a Young Man
I had never cringed so much while watching a film, not even Dumb and Dumber To comes close to this in that respect...
"I'm afraid of disappointing others."
"You're afraid to live."
"What's the point of living?"
"Living."
Happy 90th sweet Alejandro!
I could not think of a better day to finally watch this film of his beginnings.
I was caught off guard at how mixed the reviews are on this. I simply can't imagine not adoring this!
I can only guess that when one comes in with expectations of surrealism and finds instead, magical realism, they have a hard time reconciling that?
I had so many emotions throughout this film!
It felt like I was watching a movie written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez from a book of his I had somehow not read.
I connected to this intimately because several times throughout my life I have made attempts to write a book of my life. I have…
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Here's my review for the Nashville Scene.
I should make it clear, as much as I dislike this film, I really do admire it. It exhibits the control, vision, and worldmaking capability achievable only by a true master. But I've never been on Jodorowsky's wavelength. Even the older, classic films that established his reputation have always struck me as fundamentally silly in their "visionary" bombast. Now, as a grand old man of the cinema, he has "matured" into work that feels like nothing so much as second-rate Raoul Ruiz.
But again, your mileage may vary.
a gleaming, indulgent portrait of a life reenacted through rose-colored glasses.
like the scene where he & Enrique tread forward, Jodorowsky somehow manages to live wholly unencumbered. no obstacle really inhibits the expression of his artistic desires.
disappointingly, his father is painted much more sympathetically in la danza de la realidad; here, his treatment is at most ambivalent and, as now-Alejandro forces a post-mortem embrace, is struck through with condescension.
perhaps his ability to move forward so unflinchingly, dedicated to his being as a poet/artist, lay in his disinterest (refusal? inability?) to forge a true bond with any of the people he came across. like the cardboard cutouts embraced by corpses watching his departure from the dock, Jodorowsky left everyone he…
this is the first jodorowsky film i ever saw! i caught it in a cinema back in 2016 and it blew my nog right open. when the credits finished, i stumbled out into the blinding sun, feeling full and empty and poetic. of all of his films i’ve seen, this remains one of my favorites.
only got halfway thru this thing
the one thing i took away from this film is that artists can be such pretentious babies
her sahnesinin ayrı ayrı mükemmel olduğunu düşünüyorum ve Alejandro Jodorowsky'e aşığım
Captivating with some brilliant characters and scenes. Adan Jodorowsky's performance was remarkable.
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“By giving me nothing, you gave me everything.
By not loving me, you taught me that love is an absolute necessity.
By denying God, you taught me to value life.”
A self-reflective portrait of a life full of adventures, passion, changes, regrets and love. That’s the endless poetry of living.
It’s become one of my personal favorite with this rewatch, it hits so many emotions in the way it portrays the struggles and the pain of growing up and discovering yourself, continuing what The Dance of Reality started, now following Jodorowsky in his 20s, as he discovers his purpose and identity as an artist, as…
This is the first Jodorowsky film I’ve seen. And I tell what. I. Was. Unprepared.
“Of pure light.”
basically the same movie as DANCE OF REALITY with most of the conflicts (even the resolved ones) carrying over, however i find adult alejandro more of an interesting character (everything with the parents still bores me, which is why i almost bailed before 20 min). both films also essentially have the same problems; the magical realism intertwined with the standard biography jodorowsky wants to tell plays better than disjunctive bits of abject surrealism—and here there’s a stronger balance. the tarot card reader sequence stands out as among jodorowsky’s most poignant and personal statements, if only the whole film were that stunning.
If you've ever wanted to see a movie that is all about Creative Good People vs. Unimaginative Bad People on a grand (read: loud) scale with not a single nuance to it, this is the movie for you.
I like this one a bit more than Dance of Reality. Especially the bohème scenes in the first part were among the funniest scenes I've seen in a while. Unfortunately the second half drags on for more than it should have. But the very surreal ending with old Jodorowsky reenacting and changing the departure from Chile and saying goodbye to his father was amazing.
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