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L’Aigle à deux têtes [The Eagle with Two Heads] **** (1948, Edwige Feuillère, Jean Marais, Silvia Monfort) – Classic Movie Review 5832
Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s sumptuous, exquisitely acted 1948 French film stars Jean Marais as suicidal anarchist poet on the run Stanislas, who sneaks in to the royal bedroom of a remote castle to kill the Queen, Natasha […]
L’éternel retour [Love Eternal] **** (1943, Jean Marais, Madeleine Sologne, Jean Murat) – Classic Movie Review 5830
Jean Delannoy directs this strangely forgotten and sadly neglected 1943 film adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult [Isolde] legend, set in a magnificent château in 1940s France. The film’s neglect is truly surprisingly since the screenplay […]
Le sang d’un poète [The Blood of a Poet] ***** (1932, Enrique Rivero, Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Jean Desbordes) – Classic Movie Review 2986
Poet-film director Jean Cocteau’s standard-setting first film from 1932 is a dazzling series of enigmatic surrealist images conjured up as much to delight as to bewilder. As statues come alive and an executed revolutionary revives, […]
Le Testament d’Orphée [Testament of Orpheus] **** (1959, Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Maria Casarès, François Périer, Henri Crémieux, Yul Brynner, Jean Marais, Claudine Auger) – Classic Movie Review 2985
Writer-director Jean Cocteau’s 1959 last film and movie final testament takes up where his first film Le Sang d’un Poète [Blood of a Poet] (1931) and arguably his most famous film Orphée (1950) left off. […]
La Belle et la Bête [Beauty and the Beast] ***** (1946, Jean Marais, Josette Day, Mila Parély, Marcel André, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair) – Classic Movie Review 345
‘Children believe what we tell them. They have complete faith in us. They believe that a rose plucked from a garden can plunge a family into conflict. They believe that the hands of a human […]
Orphée [Orpheus] ***** (1949, Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares, Marie Déa) – Classic Movie Review 117
The French poet Jean Cocteau realises the full magic of the cinema in this 1949 masterpiece of the French avant garde, one of the most exquisite fantasies in the movies. Set in present-day Paris, Orphée […]
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