Blood of a Poet : Le Sang D'un Poet

Locations
Call Number: DVD FLC-FRE Blood
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Westgate Branch

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"Special features: A collection of rare behind-the-scenes photos; Edgardo Cozarinsky's renowned 66-minute 1984 documentary Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d'un Inconnu (Autobiography of an unknown); a transcript of Cocteau's lecture given at a 1932 screening of film, and a 1946 essay on the film by Cocteau; a Cocteau bibliofilmography."
"Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema"--Container.
Videodisc release of the 1930 motion picture.
"Under exclusive license from CANAL+ Image International"--Container.
Lee Miller, Enrico Rivero, Jean Desbordes.
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.
DVD.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

There's an eye in my hand submitted by breaking_glass on October 6, 2010, 10:11am This is the first film in Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy. It's pretty avante-garde and experimental..more like watching a beautiful dream/nightmare in black and white. It's just plain weird. Even Jean Cocteau himself admitted that he could not accurately explain everything in this film. This doesn't mean it's not worth watching. Especially if you're into blood, living statues, and people rolling around on the ceiling.

Also well worth watching is the 1984 Cocteau biographical documentary included on the DVD. Great stuff.