La Villa Santo-Sospir (1952)

Directed by

Jean Cocteau

Genre

documentary film

Country

France

Runtime

36 min

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Jean Cocteau gives a tour of a seaside villa decorated with his own artwork and pieces by Picasso and others. He shows paintings with mythological themes and spends time with friends in the house.

amateurintimateplayfulreflectivevisualpersonalart-filledleisurely

What happens

La Villa Santo Sospir (1952) is a 35-minute amateur or home film directed by Jean Cocteau in which Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of Francine Weisweiller's villa on the French coast, a major location later used in his film Testament of Orpheus (1960). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by Picasso), and we are given an extensive tour of the artwork. Cocteau also shows us several dozen paintings, most of which cover mythological themes. He also proudly shows paintings by Edouard Dermit and Jean Marais and plays around his own home in Villefranche. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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