(Chile, UK, France 2016, 128’)
Regia / Direction: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Produttore / Producer: Xavier Guerrero, Erick Aeschilmann, Robert Taicher
Interpreti / Cast: Adan Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Leandro Taub, Pamela Flores, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jeremias Herskovits
Fotografia / Cinematography: Christopher Doyle
Musica / Music: Adan Jodorowsky
Scenografia / Set Designer: Alejandro Jodorowsky
Montaggio / Editor: Maryline Monthieux
Produzione / Producer Company: La Pacte, Le Soleil Films, Openvizor, Satori Films
Distribuzione / Distributor (Italia): Mescalito Film
Santiago, Chile, 50s had just begun. Alejandro Jodorowsky is 20 years old and dreams about becoming a poet against his father’s will who sees him as a doctor, rich and bourgeois. Trapped in the usual family reunion, he (literally) severes his family tree and goes living in a commune of avant-guard artists in order to feed his burning desire, at last. Inspired by the greatest authors of modern Latin-American literature (Enrique Lihn, Stella Díaz, Nicanor Parra) and absorbed into poetic sperimentation, Alejandro will make his own cultural revolution.
In Endless poetry, Alejandro Jodorowky takes the viewer on a journey. An introspective journey that, once again, is rooted into his biography and phantasmic universe, hatching the daring season of adolescence and moving towards the adulthood of his first artistic expressions, his first sentimental troubles. Jodorowsky continues his playful and caricatural narration of existence, making up and reinventing another type of cinema - personal, free, without limits. A healing cinema enhabited by fantastic creatures that seem to come from Fellini’s imaginary. Poets, clowns, dwarves, dancers and jugglers all go down to save what they can with a poetic and prodigious act.
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky (1929) is an author, poet, composer, mime, painter, cinematographic producer, screenwriter and director of Chilean originis naturalized French citizen. His fame is largely due to some of the films he directed, such as his first feature film, the surreal Fando y Lis, based on namesake theatre play by Fernando Arrabal. El Topo (1971) is his second work and the one that made him known to international audiences, so much to lead John Lennon to finance Jodorowky’s next film, The Holy Mountain (1973). After 1980’s Tusk, avant-guard horror film Santa Sangre, written in collaboration with Claudio Argento and Roberto Leoni, arrived on cinema screens, followed in 1990 by The Rainbow Thief. Thirteen years later Jodorowsky realised the first two films of a potential autobiographical series made of five films, Dance of reality and his last work, Endless poetry, which premiered in Italy in 2018.
