Poesía sin fin (Endless poetry in the english version) is a 2016 French-Chilean drama film directed by Alejandro Jodorowsky. The film portrays Jodorowsky’s young adulthood, set in the 1940s and 50s, 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. He meets Enrique Lihn, Stella Diaz Varín, Nicanor Parra and many others of the country’s young, promising and unknown artists who would later become the titans of Latin America’s literature. Poesía sin fin is a tale of poetic experimentation; the story of a unique youth that lived as not many before them had dared: sensually, authentically, freely, madly. It was screened in the Directors’ Fortnight section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.
