Alejandro Jodorowsky continues the autobiographical saga he began in 2013’s The Dance of Reality, exploring his own life from the time of his family’s move to Santiago, Chile through his early adulthood (played by his own son, Adan Jodorowsky) trying to become a poet among other bohemian artists, and up to his departure for Paris in 1952. There’s a wildly episodic quality to the narrative, despite some vague attempts to connect everything to Alejandro’s contentious relationship with his father (another…

Writer/director Eliza Hittman—following up her 2013 Sundance feature It Felt Like Love—continues to find poetry in young people trying to figure out their sexual identity. Here, she tells the story of Frankie (Harris Dickinson), a Brooklyn youth who hides his interest in gay chat sites while putting on a straight front with his buddies, his family and a local girl (Madeline Weinstein) whom he begins dating. Hittman frames Frankie’s flailing and aimless days—living at home, seemingly unemployed and hanging with…