Blurb of the Week 005

So, let's switch things up with this week's BOTW and get some classic film in on the action.

Jean Cocteau—filmmaker, poet, novelist, playwright. With Cocteau's first film, Le sang d'un poète(The Blood of a Poet), the artist explores "a kind of half-sleep through which I wandered as though in a labyrinth." It's appropriate he would say this, as he'd just kicked his opium habit. Cocteau vehemently rejected the film's association with the surrealist movement, and explained:



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Published on January 22, 2014 10:32
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