The Blood of a Poet (Le sang d'un poète)

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"4.2. 2024 "The Blood of a Poet", the first film by Cocteau, is a surrealist fantasy that is quite easy to experience but almost impossible to understand. The first scenes of the film introduces us a struggling artist, who sees how his unfinished statue comes to life. The statue tells the artist to step into a mirror, which takes him to a bizarre journey. Cocteau has said that cinema isn't a story that is told, but a dream that we dream together. "Blood of a Poet" feels like a dream that you rem"

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" Notes: I have to admit that even though I had heard of Jean Cocteau, it was actually the very first movie he has made that I have seen so far. In general, I wasn’t familiar with Cocteau’s work at all, the guy was mostly a poet but his Art was very diverse including poems, novels, plays, essays, drawings and, of course, films. This movie was basically his directorial debut and, well, it turned out to be a pretty wild surrealist picture, that’s for sure. Indeed, it was basically a successi"

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" Notes: I have to admit that even though I had heard of Jean Cocteau, it was actually the very first movie he has made that I have seen so far. In general, I wasn’t familiar with Cocteau’s work at all, the guy was mostly a poet but his Art was very diverse including poems, novels, plays, essays, drawings and, of course, films. This movie was basically his directorial debut and, well, it turned out to be a pretty wild surrealist picture, that’s for sure. Indeed, it was basically a successi"

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“To be honest, I had no idea what to expect from this flick but since it was directed by Jean Cocteau and since it was on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. I have to admit that even though I had heard of Cocteau, it was actually the very first movie he has made that I have seen so far. In general, I wasn’t familiar with Cocteau’s work at all, the guy was mostly a poet but his Art was very diverse including poems, novels, plays, essays, drawings and, of course, films. This movie was basically his directorial debut and, well, it turned out to be a pretty wild surrealist picture, that’s for sure. Indeed, it was basically a succession of rather intriguing but also sometimes disturbing scenes and, to be honest, it was rather difficult to see what Cocteau was getting at exact” read more

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"Sang d'Un Poète, Le (Jean Cocteau, 1930) "

“The Blood of a Poet is surreal, artistic film that moves and breathes like a piece of diegetic poetry and synthesizes mythology. The film builds itsel”

The Blood of a Poet

“The Blood of a Poet is surreal, artistic film that moves and breathes like a piece of diegetic poetry and synthesizes mythology. The film builds itself around an artist’s creativity and the myth of Orpheus, chops itself into four chapters, and a series of oneiric images add disorientating flavor. This film may lack the anchor that later Jean Cocteau films like Beauty and the Beast would contain to provide a grounding reason for the hallucinatory and beautiful images, but it’s still a knockout of a debut.   At times it can feel as though the images are a flurry of strangeness that signify nothing so much as mere peculiarities, but that is a surface reaction to the film. Yes, sometimes the images and their connection to the loosely defined narrative are incomprehensible to anyone but ” read more