Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [??~ k?kto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associat
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Born On: 5-Jul-1889
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Jean Cocteau's Filmography on TV
List of programs starring Jean Cocteau on tv. Programs are sorted in order of last seen on tv. Last updated: Feb 7, 2025 5:10 PM
Traite' de Bave et dEternite' (1951)
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the visual track, through deconstructing the story, he aims to renew the seventh art the same way he tried to revolutionize the literary world.
Orphee (1950)
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.