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Category / Cocteau, Jean

November 17, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Blood of a Poet, The (1932)

  • Cocteau, Jean, Criterion Collection
  • 1932, France, Jean Cocteau
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A key work of early surrealist cinema, Cocteau’s baffling if highly-imaginative avantgarde piece about the existential crisis of a poet is a treat for both the eyes and mind.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 14, 2021July 26, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Beauty and the Beast (1946)

  • Cocteau, Jean, Criterion Collection
  • 1946, France, Jean Cocteau
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Under Cocteau’s inventive sleight-of-hand, this early postwar work may be the most magical and poetic adaptation of the beloved fairy tale ever filmed.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 18, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Orpheus (1950)

  • Cocteau, Jean, Criterion Collection
  • 1950, France, Jean Cocteau
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Magical yet haunting, Cocteau’s reimagining of the Orpheus myth in France during the Beatnik 1950s is a cinephile’s treat.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 4 out of 5.

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