The Blood of a Poet (1932)

Original title

Le Sang d'un poète

Directed by

Jean Cocteau

Genre

drama film, fantasy film

Country

France

Runtime

55 min

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 196 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An artist encounters a series of strange and symbolic events after drawing a living mouth. The film follows his journey through different surreal scenes that blur the line between creation and reality.

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What happens

The Blood of a Poet (French: Le Sang d'un poète, pronounced [lə sɑ̃ dœ̃ pɔɛt]) is a 1932 avant-garde film directed by Jean Cocteau, financed by Charles de Noailles and starring Enrique Riveros, a Chilean actor who had a successful career in European films. Photographer Lee Miller made her only film appearance in this movie, which features an appearance by the famed aerialist Barbette. It is the first part of The Orphic Trilogy, which is continued in Orphée (1950) and concludes with Testament of Orpheus (1960). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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