Jean Cocteau has admitted the faults of this legendary hour long experiment, namely a lack of plot and primitive special effects, but is always forgiven for the sheer genius of the images, which starts and ends with the destruction of a smoke stack, and features in between an hours worth of stunning visual tricks and artistic choices, some of which he’d use again more developed in “Orpheus” twenty years later. At the time the film was delayed because of Cocteau’s association with Bunuel, whose “L’age D’or” was produced by the same man, but there’s nothing offensive or anti-religious about the film, it’s pure poetic imagination, and just one of the mesmerizing works in the great, and varied, canon of one of France’s primer artists.