Actors & Directors
- Jean-Pierre Melville
- Nicole Stéphane
- Jean Cocteau
- Renée Cosima
- Jacques Bernard
- Edouard Dermithe
- Melvyn Martin
Release date: 2000-03-06 Run time: 102 min. Creator: Monique Bonnot RRP: £15.99 Price: £14.99
Review Les Enfants Terribles [VHS] [1949] / Connoisseur Video:Jean-Pierre Melville's second film, made in 1950, became a significant influence among French film-makers and earned Melville renown as a maverick who could do wonderful things outside his country's studio system. (Melville's independence was a forerunner of that enjoyed later in the decade by New Wave figures such as François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. ) Les Enfants Terribles is based on a 1929 novel by poet and film-maker Jean Cocteau, who also wrote the script with Melville and according to some people interfered in everything from the casting (the rather stiff male lead was a Cocteau protégé) to the photography. Nevertheless, the story of a sister (an outstanding performance by Nicole Stephane) and brother (Edouard Dhermite) who withdraw into their own, insulated world to play out suggestively erotic dramas, has a fluid, lyrical movement that is part of a visionary whole. In some ways a harbinger of the coming pop narcissism of youth culture, Les Enfants Terribles is also a timeless tale of mythic exploration of existence and purpose. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.
Release date: 2001-11-19 Run time: 89 min. RRP: £15.99 Price: £58.48
Review La Belle et la Bette 1946 - Jean Cocteau VHS / Connoisseur Video:La Belle et La Bete is one of the all-time great movie fantasies, and one of the most gorgeous pictures ever made. It was the first feature film by French director Jean Cocteau, a writer, poet and painter with ties to the surrealists. (In fact, his first film, The Blood of a Poet, was delayed after the scandal caused by L'Age D'Or, made by his fellow surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. ) The haunting, surreal visuals (candelabra made of human hands, for example) and a sensitive performance by Jean Marais as the Beast imbue the film with an indelible, mythical power. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com.
Actors & Directors
- Maria Casares
- Jean Cocteau
- Yul Brynner
- Pablo Picasso
- Charles Aznavour
- Jean Cocteau
Release date: 2001-05-28 Run time: 76 min. Creator: Charles Aznavour Price: £9.99
Review Testament D'Orphee [VHS] [1960] / Warner Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Jean Cocteau
- María Casares
- François Périer
- Henri Crémieux
- Marie Déa
- Jean Marais
Release date: 2000-01-24 Run time: 90 min. Creator: André Paulvé RRP: £15.99 Price: £16.90
Review Orphee [VHS] [1949] / Connoisseur Video:
Actors & Directors
- Nane Germon
- René Clément
- Josette Day
- Michel Auclair
- Jean Cocteau
- Mila Parély
- Jean Marais
Release date: 2001-11-19 Run time: 89 min. Creator: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont RRP: £15.99 Price: £34.95
Review La Belle Et La Bete [VHS] [1946] / Bfi Video:La Belle et La Bete is one of the all-time great movie fantasies, and one of the most gorgeous pictures ever made. It was the first feature film by French director Jean Cocteau, a writer, poet and painter with ties to the surrealists. (In fact, his first film, The Blood of a Poet, was delayed after the scandal caused by L'Age D'Or, made by his fellow surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. ) The haunting, surreal visuals (candelabra made of human hands, for example) and a sensitive performance by Jean Marais as the Beast imbue the film with an indelible, mythical power. -Jim Emerson, Amazon. com.
Actors & Directors
- Paul Bernard
- María Casares
- Elina Labourdette
- Robert Bresson
- Lucienne Bogaert
- Jean Marchat
Release date: 1997-02-24 Run time: 82 min. Creator: Jean Cocteau RRP: £15.99 Price: £19.99
Review Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne [VHS] [1965] / Connoisseur Video:
Actors & Directors
- Pauline Carton
- Jean Desbordes
- Jean Cocteau
- Enrique Rivero
- Elizabeth Lee Miller
- Odette Talazac
Release date: 1994-01-17 Run time: 49 min. Creator: Le Vicomte de Noailles RRP: £15.99 Price: £39.99
Review Le Sang d'un Poete (The Blood of a Poet) [VHS] [1930] / Palisades Tartan:
Actors & Directors
- Jean Cocteau
- Elizabeth Lee Miller
- Jean Desbordes
- Pauline Carton
- Enrique Rivero
- Odette Talazac
Release date: 2001-05-28 Run time: 55 min. Creator: Le Vicomte de Noailles RRP: £5.99 Price: £14.99
Review Blood of a Poet [VHS] / Warner:
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