How long is Orphee / The Blood of a Poet?

Orphee / The Blood of a Poet is 2 hr 49 min long.

What is Orphee / The Blood of a Poet about?

ORPHEE, 1949, Janus Films, 109 min. In the myth of Orpheus, the unlucky poet is forbidden to gaze upon his beloved Eurydice lest she be banished to the underworld. Jean Cocteau's version makes brilliant use of 1940’s Paris—the beatnik cafes of the Left Bank, bombed-out buildings from World War II, cryptic radio signals, and leather-clad motorcyclists—to convey the fractious literary world of the poet and the fearsome "Zone" he must navigate in pursuit of his lost love. THE BLOOD OF A POET (LE SANG D'UN POETE), 1933, Janus Films, 60 min. Dir. Jean Cocteau. Though open to innumerable interpretations (all of which Cocteau rejected), his first film, financed by the Vicomte de Noailles, is a mesmerizing attempt to use pure imagery to evoke the unseeable, namely the birth of poetry in a speck of time symbolized by the crumbling of a brick tower that frames "the action."

Orphee / The Blood of a Poet

Name: Orphee / The Blood of a Poet
Genre: Art House/Foreign,Drama
Duration: 169

NR 2 hr 49 min

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How long is Orphee / The Blood of a Poet?: Orphee / The Blood of a Poet is 2 hr 49 min long.

What is Orphee / The Blood of a Poet about?: ORPHEE, 1949, Janus Films, 109 min. In the myth of Orpheus, the unlucky poet is forbidden to gaze upon his beloved Eurydice lest she be banished to the underworld. Jean Cocteau's version makes brilliant use of 1940’s Paris—the beatnik cafes of the Left Bank, bombed-out buildings from World War II, cryptic radio signals, and leather-clad motorcyclists—to convey the fractious literary world of the poet and the fearsome "Zone" he must navigate in pursuit of his lost love. THE BLOOD OF A POET (LE SANG D'UN POETE), 1933, Janus Films, 60 min. Dir. Jean Cocteau. Though open to innumerable interpretations (all of which Cocteau rejected), his first film, financed by the Vicomte de Noailles, is a mesmerizing attempt to use pure imagery to evoke the unseeable, namely the birth of poetry in a speck of time symbolized by the crumbling of a brick tower that frames "the action."