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Ale­jan­dro Jodor­owsky has a new film at Cannes

19 Apr 2016

Words by Adam Chapman

Three people laughing and dancing animatedly in a room with artwork on the walls.
Three people laughing and dancing animatedly in a room with artwork on the walls.
The vet­er­an filmmaker’s Kick­starter-fund­ed End­less Poet­ry will pre­mière in the Direc­tors’ Fortnight.

Chilean sur­re­al­ist Ale­jan­dro Jodor­owsky – 87 years young at the time of writ­ing – is set to join the 2016 Cannes Direc­tors’ Fort­night side­bar with his lat­est offer­ing, evoca­tive­ly titled End­less Poet­ry.

Tying in the­mat­i­cal­ly with his pre­vi­ous, The Dance of Real­i­ty, which pre­miered at the 2013 Cannes Film Fes­ti­val, End­less Poet­ry looks to car­ry on his jour­ney of spir­i­tu­al intro­spec­tion. Delv­ing back into his her­itage, the film focus­es on the director’s for­ma­tive years, which saw him lib­er­at­ed from the artis­tic lim­i­ta­tions imposed by his child­hood and induct­ed into the move­ment of cre­ative young minds which shaped 20th-cen­tu­ry His­pan­ic literature.

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The film was com­plet­ed with funds from a high-pro­file Kick­starter cam­paign which secured close to $500,000 thanks to con­tri­bu­tions from 3,500 fans. In The Dance of Real­i­ty, Jorowosky’s father was played by his son, Bron­tis, and here the direc­tor and mys­ti­cal sage is played by one of his oth­er sons, Adan.

Clos­ing the Direc­tors’ Fort­night fes­tiv­i­ties is Paul Schrader’s crime-dra­ma Dog Eat Dog, which fol­lows three men fresh out of pen who find them­selves slip­ping back off the straight and nar­row for a big pay­out. It’s the director’s sec­ond con­sec­u­tive col­lab­o­ra­tion with Nico­las Cage, fol­low­ing 2014’s Dying of the Light.

Oth­er notable high­lights include Claude Bar­ras’ stop motion ani­ma­tion, My Life, as a Cour­gette (writ­ten by the great Céline Sci­amma) and Pablo Larraín’s polit­i­cal­ly charged biopic, Neruda.

The full line-up:

Dog Eat Dog by Paul Schrad­er
Divines by Hou­da Benyam­i­na
L’Economie Du Cou­ple by Joachim Lafos­se
L’Effet Aqua­tique by Sólveig Anspach
Sweet Dreams by Mar­co Bel­loc­chio
Fiore by Clau­dio Gio­van­nesi
Like Crazy by Pao­lo Virzì
Ma Vie De Cour­gette by Claude Bar­ras
Mean Dreams by Nathan Mor­lan­do
Mer­ce­naire by Sacha Wolff
Neru­da by Pablo Lar­raín
End­less Poet­ry by Ale­jan­dro Jodor­owsky
Psy­cho Raman by Anurag Kashyap
Risk by Lau­ra Poitras
Tour De France by Rachid Djaï­dani
Two Lovers and a Bea by Kim Nguyen
Les Vies De Thérèse by Sébastien Lif­shitz
Wolf And Sheep by Shahrbanoo Sadat

The 69th Cannes Film Fes­ti­val kicks off on 11 May. Fol­low us @LWLies for cov­er­age through­out the festival.

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