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Movie Info
Filmmaker Jean Cocteau's abstract collection of images loosely connected to the feelings within a poet's heart and soul.
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Genre: Fantasy
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Original Language: French (Canada)
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Director: Jean Cocteau
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Producer: Le Vicomte de Noailles
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Writer: Jean Cocteau
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Release Date (Theaters): original
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Runtime:
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Distributor: Criterion Collection
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Sound Mix: Mono
Cast & Crew

Elizabeth Lee Miller
Statue

Enrico Rivero
Poet

Jean Desbordes
Louis XV Friend

Féral Benga
Black Angel

Jean Cocteau
Director

Jean Cocteau
Writer

Le Vicomte de Noailles
Producer

Georges Auric
Original Music

Georges Périnal
Cinematographer

Jean Cocteau
Film Editing
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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.
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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. 99/100
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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 grotesque
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Dec 14, 2008Words can't describe this masterpiece
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