“I’ll save Surrealism!” is the sort of brash artistic mission statement only uttered by the young, usually in the first flush of self-regard, adult possibility and creative power. And it’s there that we reunite with fledgling poet and future cult filmmaking legend Alejandro Jodorowsky (played by his adult son, Adan Jodorowsky), in the director’s latest look back at his own life, the wonderfully strange “Endless Poetry.”
Having explored his lonely childhood in 2013’s “The Dance of Reality,” Jodorowsky has much more to say on the subject of building a life in art. This new chapter involves teenage Alejandro (Jeremias Herskovitz) leaving boyhood and becoming an appropriately angry young man, splintering his relationship with his dutiful yet weepily dramatic and literally operatic mother (Chilean soprano Pamela Flores, who sings all her character’s dialogue), as well as with his domineering, unusually cruel father Jaime (Brontis Jodorowsky — Adan’s older brother, who was the young co-star of their father’s 1970 classic “El Topo”), all in the pursuit of personal and artistic freedom.