Country:France

Director:Jean Cocteau

Program:Parallel Pathways

Summary:

Jean Cocteau, the great renaissance man of the French Avant-Garde decided he would at last take on the cinema, and to do that he would attempt to describe the inner life of the poet and thus provide a metaphysical autobiography of his youth. Told in four episodes, the figure of an artist stunningly passes through a mirror into another dimension, where he is enmeshed in various bizarre scenarios. Many of the visual tricks that Cocteau would continue to explore make their appearance here.