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The Blood Of A Poet

1930, Movie, NR, 58 mins

The Blood Of A Poet: Review

Funded by the Vicomte de Noailles, who was also behind Luis Bunuel's L'AGE D'OR, this is Jean Cocteau's first step into filmmaking, just one of the many media in which the great poet worked. Divided into four episodes--"The Wounded Hand, or the Scars of the Poet," "Do Walls Have Ears?" "The Battle of the Snowballs," and "The Profanation of the Host"--THE BLOOD OF THE POET is a journey in which Cocteau attempts to "picture the poet's inner self." Taking great liberties with t... read more leave a comment