The Blood of a Poet (1932)
Le sang d'un poète (original title)Reference View | Change View
- Not Rated
- 55min
- Fantasy
- 20 May 2010 (Greece)
- Movie
- 1 win.
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Enrique Rivero | ... |
Poet
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Elizabeth Lee Miller | ... |
Statue
(as Lee Miller)
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Pauline Carton |
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Odette Talazac |
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Jean Desbordes | ... |
Louis XV Friend
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Fernand Dichamps |
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Lucien Jager | ... |
Un spectateur dans une loge
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Féral Benga | ... |
Black Angel
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Barbette | ... |
Un spectateur
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Jean Cocteau | ... |
Bit Part (uncredited)
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Directed by
Jean Cocteau |
Written by
Jean Cocteau | ... | () |
Produced by
Le Vicomte de Noailles | ... | producer (uncredited) |
Music by
Georges Auric |
Cinematography by
Georges Périnal |
Editing by
Jean Cocteau |
Production Design by
Jean d'Eaubonne | ... | (as Jean Gabriel d'Eaubonne) |
Costume Design by
Coco Chanel |
Sound Department
Henri Labrely | ... | sound |
Production Companies
Distributors
- Edward T. Ricci (1933) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- The Criterion Collection (1995) (United States) (video) (laserdisc)
- The Criterion Collection (2000) (United States) (DVD)
- Third Bell Management (2019) (United States) (theatrical) (subtitled)
- Arthaus (2021) (Germany) (Blu-ray) (Die Orpheus Trilogie)
- Arthaus (2021) (Germany) (DVD) (Die Orpheus Trilogie)
- ITVX (2023) (United Kingdom) (video) (VOD)
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Plot Summary |
A young artist draws a face at a canvas on his easel. Suddenly the mouth on the drawing comes into life and starts talking. The artist tries to wipe it away with his hand, but when he looks into the hand he finds the living mouth on his palm. He tries to wipe it off on the mouth of an unfinished statue of a young woman. The statue comes into life and tells him that the only way out of the studio is through the looking glass. The artist jumps into the mirror and comes to the Hotel of Dramatic Lunacies. He peeps through the keyholes of a series of hotel rooms. In the last room he sees desperate meetings of hermaphrodites. One of them has a signboard saying "Mortal danger". Back in the studio the artist crushes the statue with a sledgehammer. Because of this he himself becomes a statue, located at the side of a square. Some schoolboys start a snowball fight around the statue. One of the boys is killed by a snowball. A fashionable couple start playing cards at a table beside the corpse. The woman tells the man that unless he holds the ace of hearts he is doomed. The man takes the ace of hearts from the dead boy. The child's guardian, a black angel, appears and takes away the corpse as well as the card. Losing the ace of hearts the man shoots himself. The woman is transformed into the unfinished statue from the studio, and walks away. Written by Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se} |
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Trivia | Originally titled "The Life of a Poet". See more » |
Movie Connections | Featured in Dinosaur/Road Trip/Small Time Crooks/Shanghai Noon (2000). See more » |
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Statue:
Mirrors ought to think a bit before reflecting images. See more » |