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Berenice Abbott Jean Cocteau’s Hands, 1927
He was a fabulous film-director too.
Jean Cocteau - Sommeil Hollywoodien (1953)
The Orphic Trilogy dir. Jean Cocteau: Testament of Orpheus (1960) Orpheus (1950) The Blood of a Poet (1930)
Bir eşyayı ellemenin tehlikesi zaten kanıtlanmıştı. Heykelleri, birdenbire dünyevi uykularından uyandırmak çılgınlık değil mi?
Heykelleri parçalamanın tek riski—bir heykele dönüşmektir.
Le sang d'un poète (1932) - Jean Cocteau
Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais. Photo by Cecil Beaton.
Jean Cocteau
Le Livre Blanc (1930)
ink on paper
The Orphic Trilogy dir. Jean Cocteau: Testament of Orpheus (1960) Orpheus (1950) The Blood of a Poet (1930)
Past life
The Orphic Trilogy dir. Jean Cocteau: Testament of Orpheus (1960) Orpheus (1950) The Blood of a Poet (1930)
THE HUMAN VOICE (2020) • Pedro Almodóvar x Tilda Swinton
Jean Cocteau illustration pour Querelle de Brest de Jean Genet
La Belle et la Bête: journal d'un film (Beauty and the Beast: Diary of a Film) by Jean Cocteau.
A superb book about the making of a masterpiece.
The year is 1894. You are in Paris. In this december evening you are getting ready to go hear "Prélude à l'Après-midi d'un faune" for the first time. 18 years later you are sitting in Théâtre du Châtelet to see Ballets Russes premier this piece made into a short ballet. It's different. It rejects classical formality. It is also breathtakingly erotic and sensual. It ends with what appears to be the faun, Vaslav Nijinsky, masturbating. You know this will lead to controversy, for the audience is booing and the critics are obviously not content. But you are certain, that Nijinsky has just made history, and you're a part of it. You stand up to cheer.
