The Blood of a Poet
Le Sang d'un poète (original)
“Poets . . . shed not only the red blood of their hearts but the white blood of their souls,” proclaimed Jean Cocteau of his groundbreaking first film—an exploration of the plight of the artist, the power of metaphor, and the relationship between art and dreams. One of cinema’s great experiments, this first installment of the Orphic Trilogy stretches the medium to its limits in an effort to capture the poet’s obsession with the struggle between the forces of life and death.
Starring Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton, Odette Talazac, Jean Desbordes, Fernand Dichamps, Lucien Jager, Féral Benga, Barbette, Jean Cocteau
Watch "The Blood of a Poet" on Criterion Channel released in 1930. It's a drama and science-fiction movie, and has a rating of 7.3 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.
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