
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet.
His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim.
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Known For | Writing |
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Most Rating | 0.029 |
Birthday | 1889-07-05 |
Place of Birth | Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France |
Also Known As | 장 콕토, Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau, |

1946

Beauty and the Beast
7.512/616
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests...
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Beauty and the Beast

1957

It Happened on the 36 Candles
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Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a good...
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It Happened on the 36 Candles

1960

Testament of Orpheus
7.7/110
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas...
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Testament of Orpheus

1950

The Strange Ones
6.7/107
Elisabeth and her brother Paul live isolated from much of the world after Paul is injured in a snowball fight. As a coping mechanism, the two conjure...
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The Strange Ones

1952

Venom and Eternity
6.7/17
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of mov...
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Venom and Eternity

1944

La Malibran
5.7/3
On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted...
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La Malibran

2018

The Image Book
6.388/76
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books...
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The Image Book

1944

From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
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Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers...
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From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain

1950

Orpheus
7.6/259
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Orpheus

1949

Daughter of the Sands
10/1
This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman s...
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Daughter of the Sands

1925

Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
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A short film about a famous writer who loses control of his hand and begins to write letters and articles denouncing himself.
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Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema

1957

8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
5.9/12
8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements is an American experimental film directed by Hans Richter, Marcel Duchamp, and Jean Cocteau. Described by Richter...
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8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements

1984

Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
6.5/4
Jean Cocteau reminisces about the people he has known throughout his long life.
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Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown

1962

Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
6.4/5
In August 1963, just a couple of months before his death, Jean Cocteau made one last short film. The film comprises one still and highly sober shot of...
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Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000

1964

In This Atrocious Garden
10/1
This short documentary film is conceived as a stroll through the valley of Thebes and the temple of Karnak.
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In This Atrocious Garden

1964

Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
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Cocteau, at his home, remembers his childhood, talks at length about theater, cinema, literature, and draws portraits of friends.
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Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau

1967

Disorder Is 20 Years Old
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Disorder Is 20 Years Old

1985

Steel Cathedrals
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20 minute music documentary shot in two days of November 1984 in, and around the outskirts of, Tokyo, Japan. A large part of the music was completed d...
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Steel Cathedrals

1959

Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
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In 1959, Jean Cocteau looked back on his artistic journey for the Télé Monte-Carlo television show Tout la vérité, rien que la vérité. The program end...
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Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau

2009

Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
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A look at the life and art of Ms. Iran Darroudi, one of the most important contemporary Iranian painters, who has divided her time between Tehran and...
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Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments

2006

Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
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Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or

2007

Callas Assoluta
6.5/4
This revealing documentary from director Philippe Kohly examines the storied life of renowned soprano Maria Callas, from her troubled childhood in New...
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Callas Assoluta

1960

America as Seen by a Frenchman
6.4/10
At the end of the 1950s, French documentarian François Reichenbach spent eighteen months traveling the United States, documenting its diverse regions,...
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Cocteau et compagnie
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1960

Beyond the Riviera
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Travelogue exploring the coastline, towns and surrounding mountains of the French Riviera.
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Beyond the Riviera

2024

Daedalus
10/1
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a n...
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Daedalus

2024

Jean Cocteau
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We film buffs grew up worshiping Jean Cocteau—particularly his BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, ORPHEUS and BLOOD OF A POET—but in recent years he has perhaps eb...
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1950

The Century Is Fifty
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As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of severa...
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The Century Is Fifty

1997

Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
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This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-L...
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Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

1946

Black Friendship
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The commentary recalls that Radio Brazzaville was, from June 18, 1943, the contact of the French settlements and the metropolis, bush stations partici...
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Black Friendship

1952

La Villa Santo-Sospir
7.2/15
Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavil...
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La Villa Santo-Sospir

1955

Eine Melodie - vier Maler
5/3
Each portrayed painter produced an experimental animated short film to be featured in this film. A short film by Herbert Seggelke.
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Eine Melodie - vier Maler

2018

Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
7.2/4
French artist Jean Cocteau's multifaceted work across poetry, plays, paintings and film made him one of the leading creative figures of the Parisian a...
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Art of Style: Jean Cocteau

1932

The Blood of a Poet
7.2/159
Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios.
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The Blood of a Poet

1958

Musée Grévin
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A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.
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Musée Grévin

1943

The Phantom Baron
6.1/10
Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol,...
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The Phantom Baron

1948

The Storm Within
6.5/25
Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is...
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The Storm Within

1962

Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
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This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works.
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Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir

1950

Disorder
5/4
Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
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Disorder

2020

A Night at the Opera
6.4/7
A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.
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A Night at the Opera

2020

Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
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Portrait of Panama Al Brown, a great boxer in the 30's, and its story with France, with a focus on its relationship with Jean Cocteau, surrealist, poe...
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Cocteau - Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer

2007

To Each His Own Cinema
6.5/138
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...
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To Each His Own Cinema

1996

Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
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