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Four Classic Cocteau films
Films in the Cocteau Films :
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Film: The Blood Of A Poet (1930)
14 May 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Opening our season from this masterly director. An entry point into Cocteau's personal and poetic imagery. This experimental film was made the same year (1930) as Buñuel's L'Age d'or.
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Film: La Belle Et La Bête
21 May 2014, 7:30 p.m.
A mournfully beautiful, atmospheric masterpiece from 1946. The first cinematic adaptation of the Beauty and the Beast, starring Jean Marais.
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Film: Orphée
28 May 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Cocteau's immortal retelling of the myth of Orpheus from 1950, set in postwar existentialist France and starring Jean Marais as ‘a poet fascinated by the unknown and the unseen’.
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Film: Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
4 Jun 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Paul and his sister live alone in their cluttered bedroom. They dream up games and rituals. One day Paul falls ill, and the outside world steps in. A 1950 film based on Cocteau’s novel.