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DVD - director Jean Cocteau
The Three-Disc Box Set of Jean Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy Contains: The Blood of a Poet (1930, 50 min.), Orpheus (1949, 95 min.) & Testament of Orpheus (1959, 80 min.)
Disc One: The Blood of a Poet, new transfer of the film with digitally restored sound, collection of rare behind-the-scenes photos, Edgardo Cozarinsky's renowned documentary Jean Cocteau: Autoportrait d'un Inconnu (Autobiography of an Unknown) (1983, 66 min.), transcript of Cocteau's lecture given at a 1932 screening, and a 1946 essay on the film by Cocteau, a Cocteau bibliofilmography, new English title translation
Disc Two: Orpheus, new transfer of the film with digitally restored image and sound, Cocteau's essays on the film from 1950, new English title translation
Disc Three: Testament of Orpheus, new transfer of the film with digitally restored image and sound, Villa Santo Sospir, a 16mm color film by Cocteau featuring many of the locations used in Testament of Orpheus, a collection of Cocteau's writings on Testament of Orpheus, a Cocteau bibliofilmography, new English title translation
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DVD director Jean Cocteau, Starring: Jean Marais, Josette Day,
This is definitely not the Disney version. While it remains faithful to the plot of the classic fairy tale by Leprince de Beaumont, Jean Cocteau's 1946 French romantic fantasy is the product of a sophisticated, mature sensibility in its tones and textures and, above all, in its surprising emotional power. With sparkling black-and-white imagery that, for once, is actually dreamlike rather than cute or kitschy, and with a Beast (Jean Marais) who is almost as glamorous with his silky blonde facial hair as he is clean shaven, the movie casts a seductive spell. It might actually be a little too rich and unsettling for kids. Even the costumes and the draperies are entrancingly ornate. Viewers intoxicated by this enveloping vision should consider moving on to Cocteau's even more aggressively other-worldly 1949 masterpiece Orpheus, in which Marais plays the doomed poet of ancient Greek legend, updated to a Parisian "punk" milieu of motorcycles and black leather
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