The Blood of a Poet

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Thomas V @TomVee 10/07/2024 Interesting stuff, groundbreaking in its day. Surrealism is tough to evaluate by any conventional standard of entertainment, but I enjoyed it overall. Still, I'll probably be reading commentary on this film for a few days to wrap my brain around it. On the surface, there's some wonderful imagery here and some fun special effects that must've been really impressive in 1930. What's underneath it is something I'm still working out. See more Luca D @JoeCamel7 05/15/2024 A great hours worth of spoken, and visual poetry. Along with great pantomime performances and set design. Definitely worth watching if youre interested in surrealism from the early 20th century. See more Logan D @Greynomad38 11/05/2023 Rotten Tomatoes: Critics-95% (21 reviews); Audience-85% Sculptor. Mirrors. Dead boy. Card Game. The first of Cocteau's Orpheus trilogy, this Avant-guard surreal film features 4 loosely connected stories featuring living statues, other realms, and an angel. Loved it. Cocteau is rapidly becoming one of my faves. See more william d @acsdoug 01/04/2021 From an historical perspective, i.e. as a stepping stone in the development of cinematic technique, Blood of a Poet may be interesting. But as entertainment, or even as an avant garde exercise, the film just doesn't cut it, See more 01/21/2017 Cocteau's debut feature is divided into four sections. Things happen. Statues come to life. People step through mirrors into hotels. A snowball turns out to be a chunk of marble. It's often mislabeled a "surrealist" film. Cocteau is clearly not engaged in the same sort of activity as the surrealists and their ilk. Perhaps that's why I feel a lot less engaged by this admittedly brilliant but, personally, underwhelming film. See more 06/03/2016 Groundbreaking. Mind-bending. Hugely personal work with gorgeous score by Auric. Really, this movie can't be beat. See more Read all reviews

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