Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown.

Cineaste | June 22, 1993| | Copyright

Is there an example in the history of cinema of a poet and writer turned filmmaker to compare with that of Jean Cocteau? One other name comes to mind--Pier Paolo Pasolini. But Cocteau's life, because it was longer and because he lived earlier, spans a larger, therefore richer, slice of cinematic history. Even so, Cocteau began making films only after attaining considerable fame as a poet, novelist, and playwright; he was over forty when he started work on Blood of a Poet (1930). Born in 1889, Cocteau very early won the reputation of an enfant terrible of letters. Friend of ...

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