Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet. His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Cocteau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (58 titles)
MovieProust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 2026
MovieJean Cocteau
Self (archive footage) · 2024
10.0MovieDaedalus
Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited) · 2024
8.0MovieCharles Trenet, l'enchanteur
Self (archive footage) · 2022
2.0MovieMorceaux de Cannes
2021
6.4MovieA Night at the Opera
Self (archive footage) · 2020
MovieCocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
Self (archive footage) · 2020
7.2MovieArt of Style: Jean Cocteau
Self (archive footage) · 2018
6.3MovieThe Image Book
(archive footage) · 2018
10.0MovieLes Enfants Terribles du Cinéma
Self (archive footage) · 2011
4.0MovieIran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
Self (archive footage) · 2009
6.5MovieCallas Assoluta
Self (archive footage) · 2007
6.5MovieTo Each His Own Cinema
Self (segment "47 Ans Après") (archive footage) · 2007
MovieThe Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006
MovieJean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Self (archive footage) · 2006
6.0MovieCocteau and Company
Himself · 2003
7.5MovieJean Cocteau, cinéaste
Self (archive footage) · 2001
MovieJean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Self (archive footage) · 1997
MovieGreat Writers: Jean Cocteau
Self · 1996
Steel Cathedrals
Self (voice) (archive footage) · 1985
7.0MovieJean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
Self (archive footage) · 1984
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage) · 1978
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
Self (archive footage) · 1967
10.0MovieIn This Atrocious Garden
Narrator (voice) · 1964
ShowPour le plaisir
Self · 1964
MoviePortrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
Self · 1964
8.0MovieThe Infernal Machine
Self (voice) · 1963
MovieMarcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
Self · 1962
6.4MovieJean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
Self · 1962
MovieIn Search of Marcel Proust
1962