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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 ...
A text in the preface had defined the poet’s role (“poet” being another shorthand for “artist”) as composing “a realistic documentary of unreal events.” This phrasing is wonderfully ambiguous. Is The Blood of a Poet a nonsensical whimsy without antecedents in reality, or is it a series of “unreal events” anchored in reality ...
Aug 5, 2019 · In my opinion a little of both, though the result is a serious work. This 60-minute film is ostensibly, a work on the nature of creating art. It shows the artist in the first part of the film struggling to find his identity, vowing to free himself from his present confinement by becoming a martyr for his art.
Aug 24, 2021 · The Blood of a Poet. by Dave Kehr October 20, 1984. Jean Cocteau’s 1930 attempt to transfer the artistic strategies of modern poetry—allusiveness, discontinuity, self-referentiality—to film ...
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The Blood of a Poet draws nothing from either dreams or symbols. As far as the former are concerned, it initiates their mechanism, and by letting the mind relax, as in sleep, it lets memories entwine, move and express themselves freely. As for the latter, it rejects them, and substitutes acts, or allegories of these acts, that the spectator can ...
Directed by Jean Cocteau • 1930 • France Starring Enrique Rivero, Lee Miller, Jean Desbordes “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.
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. Not many films could so delicately balance themes of the artist, homophobia, societal violence and the familiar touchstone of the tyranny of the bourgeoisie in such a eloquent manner.
