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The Blood of a Poet. “Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” proclaimed Jean Cocteau of his groundbreaking first film—an exploration of the plight of the artist, the power of metaphor, and the relationship between art and dreams.
One of the greatest examples of the merits of surrealist storytelling. The blood of a poet is a close analysis of the potentially disastrous hazards of being an artist and the inherent symbiotic relationship between art and death.
Aug 24, 2021 · The Blood of a Poet. Jean Cocteau’s 1930 attempt to transfer the artistic strategies of modern poetry—allusiveness, discontinuity, self-referentiality—to film.
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Aug 5, 2019 · The Blood of a Poet, was based on his own private mythology. Typical for Cocteau’s films was the use of mirrors as a door into another world and the play between reality and the underworld or the inner world where poetry is made.
In contrast to the young artist’s revolutionary pretensions, The Blood of a Poet dispels romantic notions of creativity. When the painter first shoots himself, and shortly afterward when he turns into a statue, a disembodied voice urges him on: “Glory forever!”
The Blood of a Poet is a 1932 featurette (55 minutes) directed by Jean Cocteau. It's an extremely odd film with no linear narrative. It can be best described by being divided into sections. In the first part, an artist in a studio is drawing on a canvas.
THE BLOOD OF A POET. OCTEAU'S Le Sang d'un Poete is one of the authentic classics 'bi of the cinema, in the small group that includes Caligari, The Ten Days that Shook the World, some Rene Clair, and some Chap- lin. It is perhaps Cocteau's own magnum opus, even if we com- pare it with Thomas L'Imposteur, La Machine Infernale, or Les Chevaliers ...
