This film is the last in the Orphic trilogy by poet, artist, filmmaker and renaissance man, Jean Cocteau. It’s, more or less, a retrospective of Cocteau’s work up until that time. Plotwise, Cocteau is lost in a spacetime vortex and only the professor’s special faster-than-the-speed-of-light bullets can release him. Once he is freed he meets up with Cegeste, abandoned in the previous installment, Orpheus. He brings Cocteau before his judges, the Princess and Heurtebise, and ultimately, Athena, to whom he must sacrifice his art. Cocteau and his famous friends have a ball with a screenplay rife with Jungian symbology and repartee. Art for Cocteau’s sake? ‘Fraid so.
by Marlin Tyree | Source: Criterion Collection DVD
20 Dec 2006 5:44 PM | Submit Comment
