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Orphée
(Jean Cocteau, France 1950, 95')
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Orphée |
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‘Its tight cross-lacing of paranoid dreaming and poetic
realism grips like a bondage corset.’ (Raymond Durgnat).
Poet, novelist, painter, playwright, film-maker: Jean Cocteau
worked in many different artistic media. Orphée is his
enigmatic and dreamlike re-telling of the Greek myth, set in post-occupation
France. Orphée (Jean Marais) is the successful poet, envied and
despised by the Left Bank youth, who pushes himself beyond mortality into
another world - that of the magic of his imagination. In this fantastic
and poetic exploration of creativity, sexuality and the modern world, Death
is an elegant princess who travels in a luxurious Rolls Royce, and the
Furies are black-clad motorcyclists. Cocteau's work is crucial to any study
of post-war art, design, photography or fashion. With Maria Casarès,
Francois Périer and Juliette Gréco. Re-released by the bfi
in a brand new print.
Tate Modern Starr Auditorium
£3.50 (£2 concessions)
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