VIFF 2016: Endless Poetry

(Chile/France)

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      Beginning exactly where 2013’s The Dance of Reality left us—on that mist-shrouded boat—Alejandro Jodorowsky extends his autobiographical meditation into early adulthood and further still into a crowning, late-career achievement.

      Jodorowsky’s son Adan plays the filmmaker-mystic as a young man, acting against his half brother Brontis, who returns in his role as their grandfather. Father-son conflict, not surprisingly, is the big theme inside this mischievously conceived knot of shared DNA and divided souls. Jodorowsky’s primary symbolic language of “freaks”, corpulent mother figures, and pneumatic lovers (both played by Pamela Flores) and his charged images of cruelty and carnality become even more vivid in the hands of Wong Kar-wai’s favourite cinematographer, Christopher Doyle, as Endless Poetry dances beguilingly toward a climax as cathartic and moving as its predecessor’s. Fans will weep. The title is apt, to say the least.

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