COCTEAU Jean - Lot 101

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COCTEAU Jean - Lot 101
COCTEAU Jean Autograph MANUSCRIT signed "Jean Cocteau", Autour d'un film,[1947]; 10 and a half pages in-4 on the back of the Bailiff's House letterhead sheets, rue du Lau, Milly (S.-&-O.). (slight traces of rust). On the film The Eternal Return and Cinematographic Art. Produced in 1943 by Jean Delannoy, based on a script and dialogues by Cocteau, L'Éternel Retour, a modern transposition of the legend of Tristan and Yseult, was a great success. This is an address intended to present a reprise of the work in a cinéclub; the allusion to the 16 mm film (Coriolan), like that to La Belle et la Bête, allows us to date it to 1947.] "I laughed a lot at some articles in London where the Lord Return was accused of being of Germanic inspiration because of his blond heroes and, I imagine, because of WAGNER's opera. But Tristan belongs to England and France... If he belongs "to the generation that fought against Wagnerism", Cocteau laid down his arms: "I let myself be carried by Wagner's waves, I let his potion work", but he did not think to use it. "There are very few great love stories, great triumphs of the couple. Tristan is the type. I wanted to put an illustrious legend among all, at the rhythm of our time and prove that the Eternal Return of NIETZSCHE could translate into the eternal return through the centuries of coincidences, surprises, obstacles and dreams causing a plot that other people live without even realizing it. Wonderful and Poetry don't concern me. They must attack me by ambush. ...] That is why I am so attached to living in Belle's family as much as in the castle of the Beast"... And he evokes The Blood of a Poet: "This blood that disgusts us forces us to turn our heads and prevents us from enjoying the finds (by finds they mean: the entrance into the ice, the statue that moves, the heart that beats)"...As for the cinematographer, "I believe that the progress of his soul does not depend on the progress of his machines"; that is why Cocteau
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