- Actors: Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talazac, Jean Desbordes
- Directors: Jean Cocteau
- Writers: Jean Cocteau
- Producers: Le Vicomte de Noailles
- Language English
- Classification: PG
- Studio: Tartan
- VHS Release Date: 1 Jan 1995
- Run Time: 55 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B00004CIBO
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 9,972 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A classic example of the power of cinema,
By Jason Parkes "We're all Frankies'" (Worcester, UK) - See all my reviews (No. 1 Hall OF FAME REVIEWER)
This review is from: Le Sang d'un Poete (The Blood of a Poet) [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Jean Cocteau was a poet- the images in films such as this and 'Orphee' are among the most powerful that the cinema has ever seen. So, it's in black and white and is silent...so? You will see this film and the wonder it sets off in your mind will transcend the 'limitations' of monochrome...Do you want to see what a dream looks like? Do you want to see a film that could only work as a film? This is what the novel fails to capture. This is why televsision is a banal form. This is epic-imagist poetry for those that can't connect to the dull-poets of today (excepting Seamus Heaney). It feels like Lorca at times: Federico Garcia Lorca in images...Cocteau came out of the surrealist movement and this is a crwoning achievment- equal to anything else in cinematic history (Metropolis; The Seventh Seal; Jules et Jim; Taxi Driver; Rashomon; Un coeur en Hiver; If...; Il Conformista; Andrei Rublev...)This is a film that should be seen by everyone- and one that everyone should like...
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3.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Poor quality edition,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
The particular edition I have seen (Timeless Video) is unwatchable. Apparently they recorded it from a television broadcast. After the first 23 minutes of this 55 minute feature, the top half of the screen is occupied by VCR data. The movie itself is Cocteau's first effort, and the half I was able to see in this edition is a bit primitive, though one already sees visual themes used to great effect in Orpheus. 3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
hauntingly beautiful, richly chaotic imagery--first rate,
By J from NY - Published on Amazon.com
i may dislike cocteau's literature, but i'm a fanatic when it comes to his work in film. "blood of a poet" is such a gem that it almost makes up for the instinctual dislike and boredom i feel when reading his poetry and essays. from start to finish this masterpiece will fascinate and hypnotize the lover of surrealist art, and also lovers of film as a whole. the image i most love from this movie is the armless greek statue with a superimposed mouth on it's face. it is, of course, useless to try to interpret intellectually and it doesn't have a 'meaning' rationally, (at least to the viewer), but don't dismiss it as nonsense for this reason. revilers of surrealism don't seem to understand that art is the beauty of the irrational, NOT, as the classicists believe, an expression of excellence or perfection through order. the appeal of this movie lies in it's appeal to the dionysian, primal side of our aesthetic organ. sheer genius on the part of cocteau the like of which we may never be fortunate enough to see again in this age of multi million dollar special effects-corporate (...) festivals.
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