#67 - The Blood of A Poet

I call this entry - "The Blood of a Poet, or what the hell did I just watch?"

This is a surrealist sort of film, meant to provide images rather than a plot or narrative - this is a good movie to have a cliffs notes or wikipedia entry read BEFORE you watch

Of course, as the director points out Surrealism wasn't a thing in film when he did this - if there were 50's or 60's it might feel like a drugged out college director's debut but of course, Jean was a poet, and sought to create and make images out of the poet's struggles and lives

Might be worth a second watch at 55 minutes - an incredibly interesting snippet is that it was commissioned by a French Viscount who had a scene in it where he's in a balcony applauding, but when it was realized they were applauding over a gruesome scene filmed seperately, they forbid their footage and the balcony members were reshot with actors

a bit of a whacky film but no worries

RB