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Testament of Orpheus: Directed by Jean Cocteau. With Jean Cocteau, Françoise Arnoul, Claudine Auger, Charles Aznavour. The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.
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- Biography, Fantasy
- Jean Cocteau
- 1960-02-18
Le Testament d’Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi est un film français réalisé par Jean Cocteau en 1959 et sorti en 1960.
- Jean Cocteau
- Jean Cocteau
- Le Testament d'Orphée ou ne me demandez pas pourquoi !
With an exlectic cast that indludes Pablo Picasso, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Marrais, and Yul Brenner, 'Testament of Orpheus' (Le Testament d'Orphée) brings full circle the journey Cocteau began in 'The Blood of a Poet,' an exploration of the tortuous relationship between the artist and his creations."
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Jul 26, 2020 · He also knew that he wanted to make one final film to sum up his life’s work, a film that would emerge the next year as Le testament d’Orphée (Testament of Orpheus, 1960). But to do this, as always, Cocteau needed money to create a film even on a limited budget, and so he turned to his friend and patron, Francine Weisweiller, in whose home ...
Testament of Orpheus is a surreal explanation of what film can be. Jean Cocteau plays a variation of himself, travelling through time and space. Along the way, Testament of Orpheus explores love, life, death, art, words, and images. It's beautifully strange and wonderfully original.
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- Les Editions Cinégraphiques, Cinédis
- Jean Cocteau
Film Review. I n his final film, Jean Cocteau, France's greatest living poet, provides a fitting conclusion to a remarkable artistic career that spanned over fifty years and encompassed not only the cinema but also painting, novels, stage plays, music and poems. As the title suggests, Le Testament d'Orphée revisits Cocteau's previous (and ...
This film is the third part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960). Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet.
