Jean Cocteau
Directing 1889-07-05 Maison 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 associat…
Known For
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Beauty and the Beast
1946
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Orpheus
1950
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Testament of Orpheus
1960
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The Strange Ones
1950
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The Image Book
2018
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La Malibran
1944
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Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009
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Daughter of the Sands
1949
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From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
1944
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It Happened on the 36 Candles
1957
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Venom and Eternity
1952
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8 x 8: A Chess-Sonata in 8 Movements
1957
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In This Atrocious Garden
1964
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Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962
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Jean Cocteau Makes Cinema
1925
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Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984
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Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964
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Toute la vérité, rien que la vérité : Jean Cocteau
1959