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- 1962
- Not Rated
- Films Around the World (I)
- 1 h 19 m
- 1962
- Not Rated
- Films Around the World (I)
- 1 h 19 m
Summary The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.
Written By: Jean Cocteau
- 1962
- Not Rated
- Films Around the World (I)
- 1 h 19 m
- 1962
- Not Rated
- Films Around the World (I)
- 1 h 19 m
Testament of Orpheus
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Summary The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions.
Written By: Jean Cocteau
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Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
75
86% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
14% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Some may find this sprawling film hard to adjust to, but for those who can, it is a real find. With an imaginative plot and an amusing direction, this charming film is a fitting way to end Cocteau's career.
An exquisite mixture of dream and nightmare images, an attempt, fully realized, to live and communicate a world that is, in Cocteau’s words, “truly mine and . . . beyond time.”
A pure, personal poem from one of the greats, THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS allows Cocteau to live on forever.
With one foot in the French New Wave and the other in the Ballets Russes, Cocteau fits a raging confession into a serene, sensuous neoclassical vessel.
A self-crafted elegy starring Cocteau as himself, an artist at the end of his life wandering through a symbolic landscape filled with his own creations (and guest stars Yul Brynner and Pablo Picasso). In the end, Cocteau takes comfort in the immortality of art, and therefore his own immortality, a sentiment that would seem far less moving and far more egotistical if it weren't true.
[Cocteau] still has a flair for provoking strange moods in ordinary landscapes, as well as utilizing simple trick effects effectively and judiciously. He ribs himself at times but is quite clear in his summation that a poet is rarely recognized in his time.
Cocteau's last film is as personal and private as its title suggests, and it makes little sense for viewers unfamiliar with his other work.
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