Screen International by Allan Hunter
If the film exasperates and exhausts, which it does, there is also the knowledge that before too long there will also be moments of surreal comedy, freewheeling invention and genuine tenderness.
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Chile, United Kingdom, France · 2016
Rated G · 2h 10m
Director Alejandro Jodorowsky
Starring Adan Jodorowsky, Brontis Jodorowsky, Pamela Flores, Leandro Taub
Genre Fantasy, Drama
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A luminous portrait of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, in the electric capital city of Santiago. There, against his parents' wishes, he decides to become a poet and is introduced, by destiny, into the foremost bohemian and artistic circle of the time.
Screen International by Allan Hunter
If the film exasperates and exhausts, which it does, there is also the knowledge that before too long there will also be moments of surreal comedy, freewheeling invention and genuine tenderness.
The Hollywood Reporter by Boyd van Hoeij
Jodorowsky keeps circling back to the question of who he is and how poetry is inextricably linked with how he experiences the world.
Vibrantly recreating a seminal period in Jodorowsky's personal and artistic development, this bullishly played saga has enough quirky detail, audacious incident and visual panache to sweep the storyline through its less persuasive phases.
Endless Poetry eventually, like young Alejandro, opens itself up to the world in all of its beauty and complexities.
The final sequences about loss, and art as a “cure” (in Jodorowsky’s own words), are heart-wrenchingly powerful.
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Of course, it’s self-indulgent, pushed even further into patience-testing territory by cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who delivers some of the ugliest camerawork of his career.
The Playlist by Nikola Grozdanovic
Once it ends, you may be panting from exhaustion while still appreciating that Endless Poetry is greater than the sum of its parts as it feels naturally necessary and appropriately organic to the series.
Make no mistake: Endless Poetry is still very much a Jodorowsky film, dotted with his trademark phantasmagorical conceits, which are like candified bursts of comic-book magic realism. Yet more than any previous Jodorowsky opus, it’s also a work of disciplined and touching emotional resonance.
The Guardian by Peter Bradshaw
It’s a real flight of fancy.
The Telegraph by Robbie Collin
Endless Poetry may not quite live up to its interminable billing, but there’s certainly lots of it, and a little goes a long way indeed. But a long way is the distance Jodorowsky wants to take you.
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