How long is The Blood of a Poet / Testament of Orpheus?

The Blood of a Poet / Testament of Orpheus is 2 hr 23 min long.

What is The Blood of a Poet / Testament of Orpheus about?

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." THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS (LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHEE), 1960, Janus Films, 83 min. Made at the age of 70, three years before his death, Jean Cocteau's final film is an "inner self-portrait" in which the poet, led by the painter Edouard Dermit, encounters figures from mythology and history while exploring events from his own life.

The Blood of a Poet / Testament of Orpheus

Name: The Blood of a Poet / Testament of Orpheus
Genre: Art House/Foreign,Drama
Duration: 143

NR 2 hr 23 min

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How long is The Blood of a Poet / Testament of Orpheus?: The Blood of a Poet / Testament of Orpheus is 2 hr 23 min long.

What is The Blood of a Poet / Testament of Orpheus about?: 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." THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS (LE TESTAMENT D'ORPHEE), 1960, Janus Films, 83 min. Made at the age of 70, three years before his death, Jean Cocteau's final film is an "inner self-portrait" in which the poet, led by the painter Edouard Dermit, encounters figures from mythology and history while exploring events from his own life.