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The Blood of a Poet
The Blood of a Poet
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THE BLOOD OF A POET

Le sang d'un poète

Directed by Jean Cocteau
France, 1932
Fantasy, Avant-Garde

Synopsis

In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.

Synopsis

In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.

Our take

Poet-playwright-painter-filmmaker-novelist Jean Cocteau irrevocably changed the expressive potential of cinema with his first feature, The Blood of a Poet. Visually transcendent and playful, the film courageously introduced all of the dark romantic surrealism of Cocteau’s art to the moving image.