Les Enfants Terribles 1950  N/R, 107 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Strange Ones
Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
Cast: Nicole Stephane, Edouard Dermithe, Jacques Bernard, Renee Cosima, Melvyn Martin, Maria Cyliakus, Jean Cocteau, Jean-Marie Robain, Maurice Revel, Adeline Auroc
In this film adaptation of Jean Cocteau's novel, orphaned sister and brother–Elizabeth (Nicole Stephane) and Paul (Edouard Dermithe)–cling to each other and reject attempts of others to love them.
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 The Testament of Orpheus 1960  N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Le Testament d'Orphee
Director: Jean Cocteau
Cast: Jean Cocteau, Edouard Dermithe, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jean Marais, Francoise Christophe, Maria Casares, Francois Perier, Yul Brynner, Daniel Gelin, Brigitte Bardot
This is filmmaker, poet, painter, and sculptor Jean Cocteau's farewell, as he brings back memories of his films, stars, and friends. Cocteau plays a dying poet (Cocteau was actually dying) who is after immortality. Beautifully photographed and full of Cocteau's inventive scenes.
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| 1. Les Enfants Terribles (1950)
aka: The Strange Ones
2. The Testament of Orpheus (1960)
aka: Le Testament d'Orphee
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