Jean Cocteau
- Directing
- July 5, 1889 · Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
- October 11, 1963
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 · Self
- Jean Cocteau · Self
- Daedalus · Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
- Les parents terribles · Writer, Dialogue
- The Human Voice · Story
- Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur · Self
- The Human Voice · Writer
- Morceaux de Cannes
- The Human Voice · Story
- The Human Voice: A Story for Our Times · Story
- A Night at the Opera · Self
- The Human Voice · Theatre Play
- Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer · Self
- The Human Voice · Writer
- Art of Style: Jean Cocteau · Self
- The Image Book · (archive footage)
- Poulenc's The Human Voice / Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle · Writer
- The Human Voice · Theatre Play
- The Human Voice · Story
- The Human Voice · Writer
- The Eagle with Two Heads · Story
- The Human Voice · Story
- Human Voice · Story
- Opium · Writer
- Les Enfants Terribles du Cinéma · Self
- Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments · Self
- Blues · Theatre Play
- Callas Assoluta · Self
- To Each His Own Cinema · Self
- The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
- Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or · Self
- Cocteau and Company · Self
- Beautiful · Theatre Play
- Jean Cocteau, cinéaste · Self
- La Voix Humaine · Writer
- Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths · Self
- Great Writers: Jean Cocteau · Self
- Oedipus Rex · Writer
- Edwige Feuillère en scène · Writer
- Merlín · Writer
- The Human Voice · Writer
- La Voix Humaine: Tragédie Lyrique en un Acte · Writer
- Oidipus Rex · Opera
- The Human Voice · Story
- Steel Cathedrals · Self
- Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown · Self
- The Mystery of Oberwald · Theatre Play
- The Human Voice · Story
- La Dame de Monte-Carlo · Story
- Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma · Self
- La Voce Umana · Story
- Le Bel Indifférent · Writer
- L'aigle à deux têtes · Theatre Play
- The Human Voice · Novel
- Disorder Is 20 Years Old · Self
- The Human Voice · Theatre Play
- Thomas the Impostor · Scenario Writer, Author
- Ľudský hlas · Theatre Play
- In This Atrocious Garden · Narrator (Voice), Writer
- Pour le plaisir · Self
- Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau · Self
- The Infernal Machine · Self, Theatre Play
- Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir · Self
- Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 · Self, Director
- In Search of Marcel Proust
- Princess of Cleves · Writer, Adaptation
- Beyond the Riviera
- America as Seen by a Frenchman · Narrator (Afterword)
- Testament of Orpheus · Le poète, Director
- Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau · Self
- Discorama · Self
- Le Bel Indifférent · Theatre Play
- Musée Grévin · Self, a director
- Anna the Maid · Writer
- Anna the Maid · Writer
- It Happened on the 36 Candles · Self
- 8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements · Director
- Django Reinhardt · Writer
- En direct de... · Self
- Cinépanorama · Self