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Eagle With Two Heads

1948, Movie, NR, 100 mins

Eagle With Two Heads: Review

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 Coc... read more leave a comment