1932 · fantasy · experimental · surreal
The Blood of a Poet
Directed by Jean Cocteau55m1932
In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.
Our read: The Blood of a Poet (1932) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal fantasy · experimental · surreal entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, kinetic, measured fantasy / experimental, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold.
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