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Alejandro Jodorowsky's 'Endless Poetry' is the most accessible movie he has ever made, and it may also be the best. It's Felliniesque and moving.
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Endless Poetry
2016 · 2h 8m · Unrated
Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Alejandro Jodorowsky
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Endless Poetry
Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Alejandro Jodorowsky Director
- Adan Jodorowsky as Alejandro
- Brontis Jodorowsky as Jaime
- Pamela Flores as Sara / Stella Díaz Varín
- Leandro Taub as Enrique Lihn
- Alejandro Jodorowsky as Old Alejandro
- Jeremias Herskovits as Alejandro as a child
- Julia Avendaño as Little Girl
- Bastián Bodenhöfer as General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo
- Carolyn Carlson as Maria Lefevre, tarot reader
- Ali Ahmad Sa'Id Esber as Alejandro / Andrés Racz
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