Sang d'un poète The Blood of a poet [WorldCat Entities]

"Jean Cocteau Blood of a poet"
"Sang d'un poète"@en
"Sang d'un poète"
"Jean Cocteau's The blood of a poet"
"Jean Cocteau's Blood of a poet"
"Sang d'un poéte"
"Sang d'un poete"
"Blood of a Poet"
"Sangue de um poeta"
"Blood of a poet"
"Jean Cocteau's blood of a poet"
"Blut eines Dichters"

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"Dans un studio d'artiste, une statue inachevée prend vie. S'animent les lèvres d'une figure androgyne qui s'impriment sur la main de l'artiste. Le héros, sur injonction de la statue, plonge dans un miroir où se succèdent des lieux étranges. L'artiste revient en sens inverse, détruit la statue et devient statue lui-même. Nous passons à une bataille de boules de neige menée par des collégiens (scène d'un autre film de Cocteau, LES ENFANTS TERRIBLES. Un enfant à pèlerine est mortellement blessé et des spectateurs le contemplent. Son coeur devient pour une partie de cartes un atout maître. Retour à la statue. Une cheminée s'écroule."
"A surrealistic allegorical myth about the life of a poet who sacrifices himself to his art. Cocteau uses a wide array of metaphors and Freudian symbolism to describe the adventures of the poet."
"A surrealistic allegorical myth about the life of a poet who sacrifices himself to his art."
""'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 cinema's great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet's obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death"--DVD sleeve."
"Jean Cocteau's first feature is an episodic piece of imaginary events and transformations, and comprises four vignettes, entitled The wounded hand, Do the walls have ears?, The snowball fight and The profanation of the Host."
"A personal film in four episodes. An avant-garde film built around a character who "lives what he creates" in the words of Cocteau."
"An avant-garde film. A surrealistic meditation built around the central character of a poet who lives what he creates."
"Four episodes occur in the seconds it takes for a falling chimney to disintegrate. While Cocteau dissociated his work from that of the surrealists, in retrospect they shared the same avant-garde impulses. Cocteau also denied any symbolic or allegorical intent being concerned with the recreation of a state of inner consciousness preceding rational thought. Live performance, graphics and trick effects linked by his own commentary and Auric's music flow together to form a personal mythology, an inner world haunted by death."
""A realistic documentary composed of unreal happenings, built around the central character of a poet who lives what he creates.""
"The first installment of the Orphic Trilogy captures the poet's obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death."
"Cocteau's first film 'a poem of celluloid' takes the form of an allegorical fantasy divided into 4 episodes linked by a commentary;about the life of a poet who sacrifices himself to his art."
"An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works."
"A surrealistic allegorical myth about the life of a poet who "lives" what he creates and sacrifices himself to his art."
"A surrealist film of a poet's spiritual life and his conflict with society."
"Sumario: Una obra extremadamente personal y repleto de imágenes irreales, una película que refleja sobre el mundo interior de un poeta, sus miedos, obsesiones de su preocupación como la muerte, compuesta en cuatro secuencias no temporales e ilógicas."
"Fiction. Expérimental. Développement dans le genre fantastique de thèmes oniriques: une bouche parlant dans la main du poète, le miroir transformé en piscine, une fillette qui vole au plafond, le poète en voyeur, la chambre des hermaphrodites, l'enfant mort, le passage et la destruction de la femme-statue, l'ange noir, etc. Avec Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talazac. Commentaires dits par Cocteau dont c'est le premier film."
"Cocteau's first film is an allegorical fantasy that explores the process of artistic creation.-"
"A surrealistic myth about the life of a poet who sacrifices himself to his art."
"Aspects of a poet's vision, taking place while a chimney is falling down [c.f. Halliwell's]."
"A personal film in four episodes. An avantgarde film built around a character who "lives what he creates" in the words of Cocteau."
"A laserdisc version of the film with added features including additional footage and a transcript of Jean Cocteau's lecture given at a screening of Blood of a Poet in 1932."
"Title 1. Cocteau's first film takes the form of an allegorical fantasy divided into four episodes linked by a commentary, 'trying to picture the poet's inner self', all of which supposedly occur in the fraction of a second that it takes for the falling chimney in the opening sequence to hit the ground (ca. 53 min.) --Title 2. Cocteau's last film: The poet, as an 18th century man, dies, enters space time, is revived, and seeks his identity (ca. 83 min.)."@en
"A very personal avant-garde film. A surrealistic meditation built around the central character of a poet who lives what he creates and sacrifices himself to his art."
"Jean Cocteau présente "Le sang d'un poète" comme "un blason à déchiffrer", où les fantasmes habituels du poète y abondent. Il constitue une sorte d'autoportrait plein d'énigmes. Attention, chef-d'oeuvre !"
"A surrealist classic which depicts the metaphorical adventures of the poet in four episodes "The wounded hand, or The scars of the poet," "Do walls have ears?" "The snowball fight," and "The profanation of the host.""
"A surrealistic allegorical myth about the life of a poet who sacrifices himself to his art. The film is in four episodes (The wounded hand, or The poet's scars, Do walls have ears?, The battle of the snowballs, The profanation of the Host) linked by a commentary, all of which supposedly occurs in the fraction of a second that elapses before a falling chimney, shown in the film's first sequence, hits the ground, shown in the film's last sequence."
"Labelled by Cocteau as 'a realistic documentary composed of unreal happenings' the film depicts the metaphorical adventures of a poet. It is one of the best known and influential avant-garde films."
"An avant-garde film built around a character who lives what he creates."
"Dans un studio d'artiste, une statue inachevée prend vie. S'animent les lèvres d'une figure d'androgyne qui s'impriment sur la main de l'artiste. Le héros, sur injonction de la."
"Surrealistic allegorical myth about the life of a poet who sacrifices himself to his art."
"This was Jean Cocteau's first film. Cocteau was given complete creative freedom by his private backer the Vicomte de Noailles. As a result he was able to create an entirely personal, work of cinema, using the same inspirations and interests he had employed previously in his novels, drawings and poetry. In the first of this film's four episodes, a tall smokestack starts to collapse. Then the scene shifts to a young poet who is sketching faces. He sees that a sketch's mouth is moving and wipes it off with his hand; the mouth attaches itself to his palm. Eventually he transfers the mouth to a statue in his room. In the second episode, the statue tells the poet to enter a mirror. He falls into the darkness of the mirror's interior and finds himself at the Hotel de Folies-Dramatiques. The poet crawls along the hallway and peers into the keyholes, where he sees various bizarre situations. He reaches the end of the hallway, someone hands him a gun, and he shoots himself. The poet returns to his room and smashes the statue; then he becomes a statue himself in a courtyard. In the third episode, a group of boys engage in a snowfight in the courtyard. The statue is destroyed and one boy is left bloody and possibly dead. In the final episode, the courtyard is revealed to be a stage on which a young woman and the poet play cards next to the boy's body, which is still lying on the ground. The woman tells the poet that he is lost without the Ace; he takes the card from the boy's jacket. The boy's guardian angel appears and covers him. He takes the Ace from the poet and leaves; the poet shoots himself in the head and the audience applauds. The woman walks away and it is revealed that she is the statue; then the film ends with the final collapse of the tall smokestack. In this film, "I am trying to picture the poet's inner self." Jean Cocteau"
"Dans un studio d'artiste, une statue inachevée prend vie. S'animent les lèvres d'une figure d'androgyne qui s'impriment sur la main de l'artiste. Le héros, sur injonction de la statue, plonge dans un miroir. Se succèdent des lieux étranges: un couloir d'hôtel, une fumerie d'opium, une leçon de vol donnée par une étrange dame. L'artiste revient en sens inverse, détruit la statue et devient statue lui-même. Nous passons à une bataille de boules de neige menée par des collégiens."
"A surrealistic allegorical myth about the life of a poet who sacrifices himself to his art. This English-subtitled version restored by NYFA to approximate the original French release of 1930. Preceded by information about the restoration."
"Le Sang d'un Poète (The Blood of a Poet) is the startling first feature from the now legendary director Jean Cocteau. An episodic piece of imaginary events and transformations it concerns the surreal journey of a poet, who through a series of visions, contemplates his life and work."
"Blood of a poet is the first feature from the director Jean Cocteau. An episodic piece of imaginary events and transformations it concerns the surreal journey of a poet, who through a series of visions, contemplates his life and work."
"A personal, almost autobiographical film made by Jean Cocteau who characterized his film as "anti-surrealist.""@en
"Dans un studio d'artiste, une statue inachevée prend vie. S'animent les lèvres d'une figure d'androgyne qui s'impriment sur la main de l'artiste. Le héros, sur injonction de la statue, plonge dans un miroir. Se succèdent des lieux étranges: un couloir d'hôtel, une fumerie d'opium, une leçon de vol donnée par une étrange dame. L'artiste revient en sens inverse, détruit la statue et devient statue lui-même. Nous passons à une bataille de boules de neige menée par des collégiens..."
"An early experimental film intended to record aspects of a poet's vision while a chimney is falling down."
"Summary: An early avont-garde use of film for creative expression. Although titles, dialogue and narration are all in French, the visuals themselves tell the story."
"A surrealistic allegory about the life of a poet who "lives what he creates.""