The Blood of a Poet (1930)
Sep 6, 2000Surrealism
Early film from Jean Cocteau that consists of a progression of surreal situations. Dreamy and occasionally interesting
Jean Cocteau
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Aug 26, 2003Fairy-Tale
Jean Cocteau makes one of the greatest of all fantasy films and the finest of all fairytale adaptations, elaborating the original story out with a visual magic that still manages to dazzle audiences today
Orphee (1950)
Sep 2, 2003Modernised Greek Myth
Jean Cocteau's beautiful modernisation of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice updated to post-War France
The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Aug 15, 1999French Existentialism/Meta-Fictional Autobiography
Jean Cocteau's follow-up to his earlier Orpheus becomes an opportunity where Cocteau makes an autobiographical films, revisiting his own life and works