Jean Cocteau
Directing
- Born:
- 1889-07-05
- Died:
- 1963-10-11
- Place of birth:
- 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 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.
Known For
Filmography
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Jean Cocteau
Daedalus
Les parents terribles
The Human Voice
Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Correspondances : Jean Cocteau - Pablo Picasso
The Human Voice
Morceaux de Cannes
The Human Voice
The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times
A Night at the Opera
The Human Voice
Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
The Human Voice
Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
The Image Book
Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle
The Human Voice
The Human Voice
The Human Voice
The Eagle with Two Heads
The Human Voice
Human Voice
Opium
Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Blues
Callas Assoluta
To Each His Own Cinema
The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Cocteau and Company
Beautiful
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
La Voix Humaine
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
Oedipus Rex
Edwige Feuillère en scène
Merlín
The Human Voice
La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte
Oidipus Rex
The Human Voice
Steel Cathedrals
Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
The Mystery of Oberwald
The Human Voice
La Dame de Monte-Carlo
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
La Voce Umana
Le Bel Indifférent
L'aigle à deux têtes
The Human Voice
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
The Human Voice
Thomas the Impostor
Ľudský hlas
In This Atrocious Garden