Jean Cocteau
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Born July 5, 1889 · Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
Biography
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 Bernstei…
Known For · 40 titles
Discorama
Cinépanorama
Reflets de Cannes
Pour le plaisir
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Beauty and the Beast
Orpheus
En direct de...
Around the World with Orson Welles
To Each His Own Cinema
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Testament of Orpheus
The Image Book
La Malibran
A Night at the Opera
The Blood of a Poet
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Disorder
Morceaux de Cannes
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
Callas Assoluta
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
America as Seen by a Frenchman
The Infernal Machine
Daughter of the Sands
Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
The Phantom Baron
The Strange Ones
In Search of Marcel Proust
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
La Villa Santo-Sospir
The Storm Within
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Venom and Eternity
Jean Cocteau
It Happened on the 36 Candles
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
In This Atrocious Garden
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau