{"id":80,"date":"2006-08-13T19:00:28","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T23:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/80"},"modified":"2009-08-14T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-14T04:15:09","slug":"blood-of-a-poet-1930-jean-cocteau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/80","title":{"rendered":"Blood of a Poet (1930, Jean Cocteau)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under an hour long and just packed full of goodies. No reason not to watch this all the time.<\/p>\n

\"BoaP1\"<\/p>\n

Poet grows a mouth on his hand, transfers it to an armless statue, awakening her. She traps him in the room but he escapes through the mirror into a Cocteau Crooked Hallway\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 where he peeps through some keyholes seeing drugs and death and poetry. Later a boy is knocked down by a snowball and left bleeding while the poet and the statue woman play cards. Then some Cocteau Mysterious Poetic Stuff\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 floats the film to a close.<\/p>\n

\"BoaP2\"<\/p>\n

Dargelos and the Killer Snowball:<\/p>\n

\"BoaP3\"<\/p>\n

The scene below was originally shot with the Viscount who financed the film and his wife, for whom the film was some kind of birthday present. Cocteau: “But when their families saw that they were applauding a suicide, they forbade it. We had to reshoot the scene of the loges with extras.” The real Viscount fled Paris for a while and delayed the release of Blood of a Poet<\/em> for over a year while the furor from the Viscount’s other production, Bunuel’s L’Age d’Or<\/a><\/em> cooled down.<\/p>\n

\"BoaP4\"<\/p>\n

Cocteau calls the movie “a disturbing series of voyeuristic tableaux, a descent into oneself, a way of using the mechanism of the dream without sleeping, a crooked candle, often mysteriously blown out, carried about in the night of the human body.”<\/p>\n

\"BoaP5\"<\/p>\n

Ebert calls Cocteau’s Testament of Orpheus<\/em> minor, and Les Parents Terribles<\/em> a masterpiece. Of course I’ll have to watch both of them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Under an hour long and just packed full of goodies. No reason not to watch this all the time. Poet grows a mouth on his hand, transfers it to an armless statue, awakening her. She traps him in the room but he escapes through the mirror into a Cocteau Crooked Hallway\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 where he peeps through […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[343,13,323,64],"class_list":["post-80","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1930s","tag-criterion","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-silent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80","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=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2951,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80\/revisions\/2951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}