Jean Marais' journey through the underworld gains new strangeness and rapture in this restoration of Jean Cocteau's 1950 Orpheus myth Jean Cocteau's Orphée from 1950 is now re-released nationally, as part of the BFI Southbank season: Fantastique: The Dream Worlds of French Cinema. It has the mystery and elasticity of a dream, and all the farcical comic horror of chancing across the intricate contents of the Blessed Virgin's lingerie collection. Cocteau's reworking of the Orpheus myth includes n...
Jean Marais' journey through the underworld gains new strangeness and rapture in this restoration of Jean Cocteau's 1950 Orpheus myth Jean Cocteau's Orphée from 1950 is now re-released nationally, as part of the BFI Southbank season: Fantastique: The Dream Worlds of French Cinema. It has the mystery and elasticity of a dream, and all the farcical comic horror of chancing across the intricate contents of the Blessed Virgin's lingerie collection. Cocteau's reworking of the Orpheus myth includes n...
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