{"id":14701,"date":"2022-01-07T20:00:16","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T01:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=14701"},"modified":"2022-01-07T16:25:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-07T21:25:03","slug":"the-two-headed-eagle-1948-jean-cocteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/14701","title":{"rendered":"The Two-Headed Eagle (1948, Jean Cocteau)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A perfectly fine historical drama with some fab lighting and good faces (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6916\">La Pointe Courte<\/a><\/em>&#8216;s Silvia Monfort).  Coming between <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/9129\">Beauty and the Beast<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/6277\">Orpheus<\/a><\/em>, it lacks most of the sfx magic of those, but it&#8217;s so neglected I was half-expecting it to be lousy.  I didn&#8217;t even have the correct title, knowing it as <em>The Eagle Has Two Heads<\/em>, while <em>The Two-Headed Eagle<\/em> makes more sense.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/doubleeagle1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Monfort is the audience-surrogate newcomer to a castle where the widowed queen has shut herself away for ten years, and is about to hold a ball.  Queen Edwige Feuill\u00e8re (just off starring in a <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14724\">Dostoevsky<\/a> adaptation) is surprised by a visitor at her window who looks exactly like King Jean Marais, and the bulk of the movie is psychological spy games between these two.  She calls him &#8220;My Death&#8221; (which is very Cocteau) since he&#8217;s meant to be an assassin, the corrupt cops outside pretending to search for him.  He is of course a poet, and she of course falls for him, in a dignified\/suicidal way.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/doubleeagle2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/doubleeagle4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Police chief Jacques Varennes (<em>La Poison<\/em>) hides in a treehouse, and he and the queen run around giving everyone contradictory orders, until she gets to die with her king as she&#8217;s always dreamed (Marais taking a nice fall down the stairs).<\/p>\n<p><em>The queen uses a room-sized model palace as a shooting gallery:<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image21\/doubleeagle3.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A perfectly fine historical drama with some fab lighting and good faces (La Pointe Courte&#8216;s Silvia Monfort). Coming between Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus, it lacks most of the sfx magic of those, but it&#8217;s so neglected I was half-expecting it to be lousy. I didn&#8217;t even have the correct title, knowing it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,34,30,323],"class_list":["post-14701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-france","tag-identity","tag-jean-cocteau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14779,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14701\/revisions\/14779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}