Filmmaker and poet Jean Cocteau brings his stage play to the screen, retaining Jean Marais in the lead role. His character, Stanislas, is an anarchistic poet sent to assassinate the Queen, Feuillere. Instead, he falls in love with her, his passion for violence being overridden by a
passion for love. The film, as in Cocteau's oeuvre, is film-poetry at its purest. While Cocteau's films have been judged by many as absurd or pretentious, director Jacques Rivette best defines Cocteau's work as "that which is never out of style, which is linked to neither fashion, nor style, but
to a poverty turned to riches, limping turned to dance, in short to a happy destitution. The ...
Released:
1948
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins