TY  - GEN
AB  - 1. Jean Cocteau turns the Orpheus legend into a story of a poet and his encounter with death and the middle world. 2. An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works. 3. In his last film Cocteau portrays an 18th century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. The film finished the circle of the journey begun in Blood of a Poet, exploring the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations.
AU  - Cocteau, Jean,
AU  - Miller, Lee,
AU  - Marais, Jean,
AU  - Périer, François.
AU  - Casarès, Maria.
AU  - Dermit, Edouard.
AU  - Auric, Georges,
AU  - Cocteau, Jean,
AU  - Cozarinsky, Edgardo.
CN  - PN1997
CN  - PN1997
CY  - [New York, NY] :
DA  - c2000.
ET  - Limited ed.
ID  - 309784
KW  - Surrealism in motion pictures.
KW  - Art in motion pictures.
KW  - Poets, French
KW  - Motion pictures, French.
LA  - fre
LA  - In French with optional new English subtitle translation.
N1  - Title from container.
N1  - Special features: Edgardo Cozarinsky's 1984 documentary Jean Cocteau, autoportrait d'un Inconnu; Villa Santo Sospir, a color film by Cocteau featuring many of the locations used in Testament of Orpheus; a gallery of photos from The Blood of a poet; a collection of Cocteau's writings on the trilogy; a Cocteau bibliofilmography.
N1  - "The Classic collection, a joint venture between Janus Films and Home Vision Cinema."
N2  - 1. Jean Cocteau turns the Orpheus legend into a story of a poet and his encounter with death and the middle world. 2. An artist is driven mad by the sight of his own blood and a drawing of a mouth that seems to come to life. The combination sends him off on a series of bizarre adventures that strive to explain how artists become obsessed with their own works. 3. In his last film Cocteau portrays an 18th century poet who travels through time on a quest for divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he meets several symbolic phantoms that bring about his death and resurrection. The film finished the circle of the journey begun in Blood of a Poet, exploring the torturous relationship between the artist and his creations.
PB  - Criterion Collection,
PP  - [New York, NY] :
PY  - c2000.
SN  - 0780023161 (set)
SN  - 9780780023161 (set)
SN  - 0780023072 (v. 1)
SN  - 9780780023079 (v. 1)
SN  - 0780022505 (v. 2)
SN  - 9780780022508 (v. 2)
SN  - 078002270X (v. 3)
SN  - 9780780022706 (v. 3)
T1  - Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy
TI  - Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy
VL  - 66-69
ER  -