) is a visually Blood of a ), Poet Orphée stars Cocteau as the poet, and (1930) (The the viewer is taken on an odyssey into into odyssey an on taken is viewer the Le testament d’Orphée, ou ne me demandez demandez me ne ou d’Orphée, testament Le artistic achievement, and comes to realize realize to comes and artisticachievement, the existence of immortality through his self-contained a created Cocteau artworks. world that is truly unique, one in which leather-clad bikers are escorts into underworld, the and a battle among warring factions of artists at the poets’ café is (1946) (Beauty and the Beast , poetic transmissions on a car radio TEAU C ), and and ), O Blood of a Poet Poet a Bloodof C Le Le sang d’un poète Orpheus The Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau, July 5, 1889 (Maisons-Lafitte, Yvelines, Yvelines, (Maisons-Lafitte, 1889 5, July Cocteau, Clément Eugène Maurice Jean The The In EAN J believably believably the most important issue of day-to-day existence. La belle et la bête splendid screen telling of the fairy tale that must be seen for charming HB beast. portrayal of the exceedingly Marais’s features features appearances by artist Pablo Françoise Picasso Sagan. The and poet novelist looks back on a long career of the mind of the artist, with talkingto attempts replete statues, and Insuicide. fly, lure Orphée into his deepest desires Orphée was andplayed long-time by homosexual Cocteau’s lover, the underworld. . He communes Characters underworld. with Cocteau’s into mirror the a through walking princess of death by return from the dead by reverse imagery, the backward so they can film spring back into the living When world. running Beauty enters the hall of the Beast, enchantment bursts forth via a procession of disembodied arms reaching her way. light to in hand, torches walls, out of the Born: Born: Île-de-France, Essonne, Île-de-France, died 1963 (Milly-la-Forêt, France). France); created of ; cinema; master avant-garde Directing style: Icon of French reverse-filming fantastical set design. onscreen; techniques; a personal mythology Painter, poet, playwright, novelist, set designer, and director, perfected the art of the surrealist special effect. He is perhaps most famous for his masterwork, trilogy: the Orphic (1950) ( (1950) of Orpheus). Testament (1960) (The pas pourquoi! . Beauty and the Beast the and Beauty become its visible soul.” visible its become teau c akes… T Jean Marais, Jean Cocteau, and Jean Cocteau, Jean Marais, home; and little by little they they little by little and home; : T • Jean Co “I love cats because I enjoy my my enjoy I because cats love “I demandez pas pourquoi! 1960 demandez pas pourquoi! of Orpheus) Testament (The ) Within Storm (The Heads) has Two Eagle (The (Beauty and the Beast) ) Blood(The of a Poet op RIGH 48 Le testament d’Orphée, ou ne me d’Orphée, testament Le 1957 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements Santo-Sospir Villa La 1952 Orphée 1950 (Orpheus ) 1950 Coriolan 1948 terribles parents Les 1948 têtes à deux L’aigle belle 1946 La et la bête sang d’un poète 1930 Le du cinéma 1925 fait Jean Coceau T Josette Day on the set of of set the on Day Josette

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