The Blood of a Poet 1932 123movies

Watch: Le Sang d’un poète 1932 123movies, Full Movie Online – A young artist draws a face at a canvas on his easel. Suddenly the mouth on the drawing comes into life and starts talking. The artist tries to wipe it away with his hand, but when he looks into the hand he finds the living mouth on his palm. He tries to wipe it off on the mouth of an unfinished statue of a young woman. The statue comes into life and tells him that the only way out of the studio is through the looking glass. The artist jumps into the mirror and comes to the Hotel of Dramatic Lunacies. He peeps through the keyholes of a series of hotel rooms. In the last room he sees desperate meetings of hermaphrodites. One of them has a signboard saying “Mortal danger”. Back in the studio the artist crushes the statue with a sledgehammer. Because of this he himself becomes a statue, located at the side of a square. Some schoolboys start a snowball fight around the statue. One of the boys is killed by a snowball. A fashionable couple start playing cards at a table beside the corpse. The woman tells the man that unless he holds the ace of hearts he is doomed. The man takes the ace of hearts from the dead boy. The child’s guardian, a black angel, appears and takes away the corpse as well as the card. Losing the ace of hearts the man shoots himself. The woman is transformed into the unfinished statue from the studio, and walks away..
Plot: Told in four episodes, an unnamed artist is transported through a mirror into another dimension, where he travels through various bizarre scenarios. This film is the first part of Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
Smart Tags: #oneiric #france #statue #artist #snowball_fight #mirror #hermaphrodite #angel #alternate_reality #suicide_by_gunshot #experimental_film #portal #teacher #symbolism #surrealism #spectator #painting #painter #opera_house #mirror_as_portal #metaphor

Find Alternative – Le Sang d’un poète 1932, Streaming Links:

123movies | FMmovies | Putlocker | GoMovies | SolarMovie | Soap2day

Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 6,857
	95% | RottenTomatoes
	67/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 123 Popularity: 6.333 | TMDB

Reviews:

Meaningful ambiguity of conscience
Jean Cocteau’s “Blood of a Poet” is, on the surface, something of a free-association creation of connected vignettes that embrace surreality and art. Stylistically, it’s an exploration into the two-dimensionality of screen space and how the camera tricks the eye. Cocteau uses line drawings, perpendicular angles, and makeup effects to constantly trick and bend the eye between perceptions of depth, gender, and narrative.

But oh, that’s not all! “Blood of a Poet”, while not a dream-logic by technical considerations, is a pastiche of commentaries on, of course, society. The bourgeois are criticized for their spectatorship of each other, sexual curiosity leads to the promise of death, suicide dreams are simultaneously fulfilled and frustrated, and the public both enjoys and ignores the sadism of school-children: all in just 55 short minutes!

Apparently this was the first sound film in France, and like most first sound films, the sound doesn’t sync quite the way modern audiences think it should. Luckily for it, the effect is somewhat more surreal from a modern standpoint because it goes against expectations. That said, the use of sound is very cogent and experimental as well, as Cocteau includes a very flamboyant voice-over narration and ambiguous uses of noise and music to effectively change the result of the images.

Finally, Cocteau is not above admitting the personal nature of the film by literally including inter-titles that explain how he cannot avoid getting trapped into the film himself. That, mixed with the film’s embrace of dualities such as “this is a real documentary of unreal things” shows why this film isn’t necessarily created to be understood, it’s created to be experienced.

–PolarisDiB

Other Information:

Original Language fr
Runtime 55 min (USA), 51 min (MUBI)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Not Rated
Genre Fantasy
Director Jean Cocteau
Writer Jean Cocteau
Actors Enrique Rivero, Elizabeth Lee Miller, Pauline Carton
Country France
Awards 1 win
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (RCA Photophone)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm