2016 · drama · biography
Endless Poetry
Directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky2h 8m2016
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.
Our read: Endless Poetry (2016) reads as a neutral, steady, surreal drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, steady, measured drama / biography, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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