Two days dedicated to the genius of Alejandro Jodorowsky with the screening of his two latest films: La danza de la realidad and Poesia sin fin as a national premiere.

The National Cinema Museum is organising two screenings at the Cinema Massimo dedicated to the genius of Alejandro Jodorowsky. On this occasion, the director’s two latest films, La danza de la realidad and Poesia sin fin will be screened respectively on Sunday 10 and Sunday 17 December, at 4.00 p.m.

A brilliant protagonist of Western culture for over half a century, a writer, filmmaker, playwright, cartoonist and a supporter of psycho-magic, Jodorowsky continues to be talked about, in creating elusive and baffling films of an extraordinary creative freedom. His first short-film, La cravate (The severed heads) was  released exactly sixty years ago. In order to celebrate this anniversary, we are bringing his two latest films, which have barely been seen in Italy, when not at all, on the big screen at the Massimo. Poesia sin fin, just acquired by Mescalito Film, is offered as a premiere in respect to its national release, scheduled for next year. Admission 6.00/4.00 euro.

Sun 10, at 4.00 p.m.

La danza de la realidad (The dance of reality)

(Chile/France 2013, 130’, DCP, col., o.v. it. s/t)

The son of Jewish Ukrainian emigrants exiled to Chile, Jodorowsky imagines his own childhood afresh, preserving the truthfulness of its characters but transposing events into a poetical universe.

Sun 17, at 4.00 p.m.

Poesia sin fin (Endless poetry)

(Chile/France 2016, 128’, HD, col., o.v. it. s/t)

Santiago in Chile, at the beginning of the Fifties. Alejandro Jodorowsky is twenty years old and desires to become a poet against his father’s wishes, who dreams of him as a wealthy and bourgeois doctor.