
The Blood of a Poet
1930, Fantasy, 1h
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Critic Reviews for The Blood of a Poet
All Critics (19) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (1)
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Even if this is only a reverie on the illogicality of the subconscious, it's still a triumph of the imagination and provides invaluable insights into Cocteau's artistic vision.
November 22, 2013 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
Despite its flaws, the film remains a fascinating souvenir of a vanished avant-garde.
November 22, 2013 | Full Review… -
On the face of it, this film represents six reels of scraped together footage from off the cutting room floor. A more vague or hopeless mess could not have resulted.
May 8, 2007 | Full Review… -
The honesty and robustness of the images prevents the movie from lapsing into pretension or preciousness; it remains extremely interesting as a source of Cocteau's later work.
February 9, 2006 | Full Review… -
Cocteau approaches cinema as a parlor riddle, a hermaphroditic catalogue, the ultimate medium for the aesthete's search for the ineffable and the sublime
August 12, 2012 | Full Review… -
A haunting poem, as exciting today as it was in 1930.
May 8, 2007 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for The Blood of a Poet
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May 05, 2016Jean 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.Joseph B Super Reviewer
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Aug 31, 2011Cocteau is a revolutionary expressionist that does not belong to the surrealism movement as any Buñuel fan would claim. His purposes were merely artistic and his first masterful debut of the bizarre is a passionate tribute to the enigmatic. Dreamlike and seductive, <i>Le Sang d'un Poète</i> is a breathtaking journey into the realm of the type of mind we will never understand unless we take our lives towards another direction. 99/100Edgar C Super Reviewer
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Dec 16, 2009This dialog-free film, originally presented as 33 short films, is an experimental, bizarre set of meditations and flashbacks of the grotesqueWahida K Super Reviewer
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Dec 14, 2008Words can't describe this masterpieceArash X Super Reviewer
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