And we off!!!! - the final stretches before Filmstruck shuts down - well, ok - this one I had to get off Netflix.
This is Cocteau's final film and the capstone on a career of trying to make poetry out of film - Here the Director himself plays a poet wandering film sets, breaking down the 4th wall and being led/guided by characters from the film Orpheus, who he recognizes as characters from his film - so yah we're back in the surreal a bit, and according to an essay, he states that he wanted this to be a bookend to his Blood of a Poet film - he does well.
There is an essay on the DVD where he laments the expense of making film and how he hoped he could inspire others and that the walls to making a film could come down financially speaking - I guess in a way we've done that but it's interesting how the seem to be less creative but here in the 21st century with filming being more and more possible on digital, and the outlets for releasing a film are so much more varied - (hell put it on youtube) - it's kinda nice in a way to think that those walls have come down.
We'll only see one more Cocteau film in the future - a collabaration but he did two or three othersout there - perhaps at some point we'll get those released as well - I'd be curious to see them
we're going to get a lot of films done in the next 4 weeks kids - hold on :)
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