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The Testament of Orpheus

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The Testament of Orpheus
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NR,1hr 20min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1960
Director:
Jean Cocteau
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Jean Cocteau, Yul Brynner, Edouard Dermit  ...more
Synopsis: In his final film, Jean Cocteau brilliantly evokes memories of his past triumphs, Blood of a Poet (1930) and Orpheus (1949). Cocteau casts himself as an aging poet who knows he is dying (as indeed he was); his greatest desire is to be reborn so that he can qualify for celestial immortality. The stellar cast includes such French film favorites as Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jean Marais, and François Perier, along with Hollywood's Yul Brynner and such Cocteau friends and admirers as Pablo Picasso, singer Charles ... Full Synopsis
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Wheeler Winston Dixon, AMG Review
The third film in Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy, The Testament of Orpheus followed The Blood of a Poet (1932) and Orphée (1949) as a fitting tribute to Cocteau's lifelong obsession with the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice as well as the continual presence of Death (moving about the world of the living through mirrors), personified in Orphée and Le Testament d'Orphée by the incomparable Maria Casarés. ... Full Review
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Jean Cocteau
Himself, the Poet
Yul Brynner
The Court Usher
Edouard Dermit
Cegeste
Henri Cremieux
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