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The Blood of a Poet (French: Le sang d'un poète) (1932) is an avant-garde film directed by Jean Cocteau, financed by Charles de Noailles and starring Enrique Riveros, a Chilean actor who had a successful career in European films.
May 20, 2010 · The Blood of a Poet: Directed by Jean Cocteau. With Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talazac. Told in four episodes - an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.
Jul 26, 2020 · A review of Jean Cocteau's first film, a dreamlike exploration of his artistic identity and subconscious. The film features a poet who travels through a series of bizarre and symbolic scenes, from a crying mouth to a dead boy's resurrection.
Filmmaker Jean Cocteau's abstract collection of images loosely connected to the feelings within a poet's heart and soul.
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.
A surrealist film by Jean Cocteau about a painter who enters a dreamlike world through a mirror. He encounters strange characters, events and symbols that reflect his artistic and existential struggles.
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.
