Jean Cocteau

Known for DirectingBorn 1889-07-05Died 1963-10-11Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France

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 Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet. His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Cocteau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Daedalus

Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma

The Human Voice

L'aigle à deux têtes

In This Atrocious Garden

Daughter of the Sands

The Human Voice

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

Musée Grévin

From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain

Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema

Cinépanorama

Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur

The Human Voice

The Infernal Machine

Discorama

Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

Art of Style: Jean Cocteau

Human Voice

Testament of Orpheus

Les parents terribles

Orpheus

Beauty and the Beast

Edwige Feuillère en scène

The Human Voice

Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown

La Villa Santo-Sospir

The Four-Poster Bed

Disorder Is 20 Years Old

Around the World with Orson Welles

A Night at the Opera

Anna the Maid

Callas Assoluta

To Each His Own Cinema

Pantomimes

America as Seen by a Frenchman

The Century Is Fifty

The Image Book

The Human Voice

Venom and Eternity

Comedy of Happiness

The Blood of a Poet

Les Dames du bois de Boulogne

The Eagle with Two Heads

The Queen's Lover

Thomas the Impostor

L'Amore

The Strange Ones