By the time Alejandro confronts his father...it occurs that self-indulgence is sort of the point and that it just might be in the service of something that is actually, simply profound. Jodorowsky is dramatizing his life, just like everybody else does.

if you consider Jodorowsky's work excessive and mannered, you'll probably find this to be a slog.

Well into his 80s, Alejandro Jodorowsky, cinema's utmost surrealist shaman, has found a new burst of film creativity by mining his own personal history.

Though slightly meandering at times, Poesía sin fin is a dreamy, colourful exploration of the growth of a creative soul which gains its richness from artistic expression, and, using surrealism’s visual symbolism, creates a visual poetry of its own.