The Blood of a Poet

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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 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 05/05/2016 Jean Cocteau's 1930 film "The Blood of a Poet" is a surrealist film split up into four parts, but what do these parts mean? It is an incredibly well-made film and has an almost dream like structure. People come and go as do objects and images. See more Read all reviews

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