COCTEAU Jean - Lot 57

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COCTEAU Jean - Lot 57
COCTEAU Jean Autograph MANUSCRIT,[presentation of the film Le Sang d'un poète, 1932]; 8 pages in-4 on 8 sheets of cardboard (25 x 22.5 cm). Notes for the presentation of his film Le Sang d'un poète, before its first screening in the Salle du Vieux-Colombier on January 20, 1932. Le Sang d'un poète is Jean Cocteau's first film, made in 1930 thanks to the patronage of the Viscount of Noailles. The premiere had been scheduled for November 30, 1930; but, coming just after the scandal caused by the screening of Luis Buñuel's The Golden Age, it was cancelled, Charles de Noailles, already producer of Buñuel's film, not wanting to risk exposing himself again. It was only on January 20, 1932 that Cocteau was finally able to present his film to the audience of Le Vieux-Colombier. For his presentation before the screening, Cocteau had these cardboard notes before his eyes, numbered from 1 to 9; some of them are a simple canvas; but on the important points, they are more written. In particular, he is accused of making poetry: "Poetry - reproach of poetry. Episodic film. Everyone felt the poetic state. Mourning, fatigue, fire - drowsiness - the mind begins to associate something other than ideas, memories - to marry monsters. It's not poetry, but it's close to it. [...] Poetry must be taken by things. I'll give you some of them. 1° Set nailed to the ground. 2° Lee Miller blind. 3° Realistic children for the destroyed statue". It would not be easy to tell the story of the film. "I could give it an interpretation that is my own - symbolize afterward on allegories and enigmas"... But "we must let the film act like the wonderful music that accompanies it and all the music in the world - give anonymous food to our emotions and memories. Find each one of you the meaning of this film and I will have reached my goal"... Etc. Origin: Carole WEISWEILLER.
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