Evocation of Jean Cocteau, his many talents and friends, on the occasion of the reopening and visit of his house in Milly-la-Forêt in the Essonne. Interviews with Pierre BERGE, chairman of the Jean Cocteau committee, and Dominique PAINI, designer of the Jean Cocteau house.
Jean COCTEAU présente ses peintures sur les murs de la chapelle Saint-Blaise des Simples à Milly-la-Forêt, à l'occasion de son inauguration. Un habitant donne son avis.
Jean COCTEAU, parle de son enfance dans une famille amatrice d'art, avec un grand-père collectionneur qui fréquentait de nombreux musiciens. Jean COCTEAU, dont la première passion fût pour la poésie, déplore les critiques à son encontre.
The poet and playwright Jean Cocteau was struggling against his addiction to opium. During a cure desintoxication in 1928 he created two works: "Opium: journal of a detoxification" and especially his successful novel "Les Enfants terribles".
Jean COCTEAU returns to the creation of his play "L'Aigle à deux têtes" and his love of actors, including Jean Marais, for whom the play seems to have been created to measure.
In his villa of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Jean COCTEAU receives the presenter Jacqueline CAURAT came to interview him on the realization of his effigy of Marianne for a stamp of the French Republic. He borrowed the lipstick of Jacqueline CAURAT and sketched on a window the profile of his Marianne.
Jean Cocteau tourne son dernier film ''Le Testament d'Orphée'' aux Baux de Provence. Il y jouera le rôle d'un poète qui meurt et ressuscite. Les techniciens, les acteurs professionnels tels Daniel Gélin et Christian Marquand, et les figurants, se préparent et répètent leurs scènes.
Jean Cocteau recalls the scandal caused by the performance of the "Rite of Spring", with music by Stravinsky and a choreography by Nijinski, in 1913, at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris.
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