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Orphée, dir. Jean Cocteau, France 1950, French with English subtitles, 91 min.
“The filmmaker must know to respect what he films, to submit himself to his object.” – Jacques Rivette.
"Poetry is indispensable. To what, I don't know..."
– Jean Cocteau
Jacques Rivette famously cited reading Jean Cocteau's diary of the making of his 1946 film La Belle et La Bête as a defining moment in his life, in his words 'Cocteau was responsible for my vocation as a filmmaker'.
Jean Cocteau's second interpretation of the Orpheus myth is a peerless work of visual poetry, whose echoes reverberate through Rivette's oeuvre – from the labyrinthine streets of Paris to the marrying of the modern and the fantastical.
"Poetry is indispensable. To what, I don't know..."
– Jean Cocteau
Jacques Rivette famously cited reading Jean Cocteau's diary of the making of his 1946 film La Belle et La Bête as a defining moment in his life, in his words 'Cocteau was responsible for my vocation as a filmmaker'.
Jean Cocteau's second interpretation of the Orpheus myth is a peerless work of visual poetry, whose echoes reverberate through Rivette's oeuvre – from the labyrinthine streets of Paris to the marrying of the modern and the fantastical.
05:15 pm
Sat, 29 Mar 2025
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