The Blood of a Poet

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Luca D 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. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 05/15/24 Full Review Logan D 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. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/07/23 Full Review william d 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, Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review david l The Blood of a Poet is uneven in quality as some segments are less memorable than others, but most of the film is very intriguing in its fantastical, highly artistic, striking imagery. This avant-garde picture benefits from many evocative sets as well as truly inspired editing and cinematography. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review andrey k It's hard to say something about pure flight of imagination, but it looks really creative and avant-garde. Surrealism of this era was truly on the rise and interesting, exploiting the possibilities of cinema to create images which earlier a painter only could create in a static picture. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member 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. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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