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Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, playwright, artist and filmmaker. Cocteau is best known for his novel Les Enfants terribles (1929), and the films Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946), and Orpheus (1949). 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 and Raymond Radiguet.
Cocteau was born in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, a village near Paris, to Georges Cocteau and his wife, Eugénie Lecomte; a socially prominent Parisian family. His father was a lawyer and amateur painter who committed suicide when Cocteau was nine. He left home at fifteen. He published his first volume of poems, Aladdin's Lamp, at nineteen. Cocteau soon became known in Bohemian artistic circles as The Frivolous Prince, the title of a volume he published at twenty-two. Edith Wharton described him as a man "to whom every great line of poetry was a sunrise, every sunset the foundation of the Heavenly City..."
Actors: Arielle Dombasle (director), Jérémie Elkaïm (actor), Élodie Navarre (actress), Arielle Dombasle (writer), Jean Cocteau (writer), Marisa Berenson (actress), Valérie Donzelli (actress), Hélène Fillières (actress), Grégoire Colin (actor), Arielle Dombasle (actress), Julie Depardieu (actress), Patrick Mimouni (writer), Patrick Mille (actor), Patrick Mimouni (actor), Virginie Thévenet (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Musical,Actors: Guillaume Gallienne (actor), Eric Naggar (actor), Jean-Claude Dreyfus (actor), Féodor Atkine (actor), Dominique Blanc (actress), Eve-Marie Arnault (costume designer), Antoine Duhamel (composer), Dominique Besnehard (actor), Jean-Claude Brialy (actor), Marc Faure (actor), Marie-France Santon (actress), Manuel Bonnet (actor), Anton Yakovlev (actor), Daniel Leconte (producer), Jean-Chrétien Sibertin-Blanc (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Steve Pemberton (actor), Griff Rhys Jones (actor), Peter Copley (actor), Andre Schneider (actor), Richard Hope (actor), William Diver (editor), Ross MacGibbon (producer), David Snodin (producer), Alex Jennings (actor), Peter Maniura (producer), Hilary Salmon (producer), Jonathan Aris (actor), Sara Dee (actress), Adam Garcia (actor), Alex Argenti (actress),
Plot: In the spring of 1913, Parisian businessman Gabriel Astruc opens a new theater on the Champs Elysées. The first performance is the premiere of Igor Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring', danced by the Ballet Russes. The rehearsal process is extremely fraught: the orchestra dislike Stravinsky's harsh, atonal music; the dancers dislike the 'ugly' choreography of Vaslav Nijinsky. The volatile, bisexual Nijinsky is in a strained relationship with the much older Sergei Diaghilev, the Ballet Russes' charismatic but manipulative impresario. Public expectation is extremely high after Nijinsky's success in 'L'apres-midi d'un faune'. Finally, 'The Rite of Spring' premieres to a gossip-loving, febrile, fashion-conscious Parisian audience sharply divided as to its merits.
Keywords: ballet, ballet-dancer, based-on-ballet, paris-franceActors: Andrei Boncea (producer), Andy Garcia (producer), Hippolyte Girardot (actor), Andrei Boncea (actor), Miriam Margolyes (actress), Elsa Zylberstein (actress), Udo Kier (actor), Omid Djalili (actor), Peter Capaldi (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Jim Carter (actor), Ernest Maftei (actor), Andy Garcia (actor), Cheryl Leigh (miscellaneous crew), Guy Farley (composer),
Plot: Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, modigliani, montparnasse, one-word-titleActors: John Sessions (actor), William S. Burroughs (writer), Bernard Hill (actor), Danny Webb (actor), Allen Ginsberg (writer), Edgar Allan Poe (writer), John Sessions (actor), Jean Cocteau (writer), Timothy Leary (actor), Allen Ginsberg (actor), David Gilmour (composer), Jon Finch (actor), Phil Daniels (actor), Diana Quick (actress), Jon Blair (producer),
Genres: Documentary, Drama,Actors: Emilio Ortiz (editor), Sarah Douglas (actress), Naicho Petrov (actor), Iossif Surchadzhiev (actor), Rosa Novell (actress), Boris Lukanov (actor), Anani Yavashev (actor), Stefan Ilyev (actor), Francisco Guijar (actor), Antoni Ribas (producer), Antoni Ribas (director), Antoni Ribas (writer), Max Freeman (actor), Vasil Dimitrov (actor), Valentín Fernández-Tubau (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Timothy Quay (miscellaneous crew), Keith Griffiths (producer), Stephen Quay (director), Timothy Quay (director), Stephen Quay (miscellaneous crew), Igor Stravinsky (composer), Larry Sider (editor), Alexei Jawdokimov (actor), Milos Kirek (actor), Jan Rosol (actor),
Genres: Animation, Biography, Documentary, Short, Short,Actors: Lucien Raimbourg (actor), Bernard Musson (actor), Pierre Larquey (actor), Roger Pierre (actor), Charles Aznavour (actor), Raoul Curet (actor), Curd Jürgens (actor), Andrex (actor), Paul Demange (actor), Charles Boyer (actor), Philippe Clay (actor), Max Elloy (actor), André Gabriello (actor), Jean Cocteau (actor), Jean Richard (actor),
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Anouk Ferjac (actress), Robert Rollis (actor), Suzanne Dehelly (actress), Jacques Castelot (actor), Claude Rich (actor), Alain Quercy (actor), Hubert de Lapparent (actor), Jean Parédès (actor), Fernand Gravey (actor), René Lefèvre (actor), Robert Lombard (actor), Robert Arnoux (actor), Bernard Dhéran (actor), Alice Kessler (actress), Gaston Orbal (actor),
Genres: Drama,Sometimes a film
Sometimes a photograph
Sometimes a rose
Sometimes a looking glass
Enchanter of souls
Your dreams still unfold
Sometimes a child
Sometimes a tradgedy
Sometimes a truth
Sometimes a fantasy
Enchanter of souls
Your dreams still unfold
Sign your name with a star
It's all a game
Only a pantomine
A deadly parade
Sadly to end divine
Enchanter of souls
Your dreams still unfold