France
1930
50 minutes
Black and White
1.33:1
French
67
“Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” proclaimed Jean Cocteau of his groundbreaking first film—an exploration of the plight of the artist, the power of metaphor and the relationship between art and dreams. One of cinema’s great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet’s obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death. Criterion is proud to present The Blood of a Poet (Le sang d’un poète).
| Statue | Lee Miller |
| Poet | Enrique Rivero |
| Louis XV Friend | Jean Desbordes |
| Black Angel | Féral Benga |
| Director | Jean Cocteau |
| Settings, montage, and commentary by | Jean Cocteau |
| Music | Georges Auric |
| Technical director | Michael J. Arnaud |
| Cinematography | Georges Perinal |
| Sound | Henri Labrély |
| Sound effects | R.C.A. Photophone |
| Set decoration | Jean d'Eaubonne |
| Orchestra conducted by | Edouard Flament |
| Accessories by | Maison Berthelin |
| Plaster casts by | Plastikos |
“Before there were Luis Buñuel, Robert Bresson, Ingmar Bergman, or Andrei Tarkovsky (not to mention Lars von Trier, Carlos Reygadas, and Guy Maddin), there was Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889–1968), the original solitary, uncompromising film artist.” So begins J. Hoberman’s http://www.villagevoice . . .
PREFACE (1946) “Most of Aesop’s fables have many different levels and meanings. There are those who make myths of them by choosing some feature that fits in well with the . . .
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