Critical Essay by Bosley Crowther
Perhaps the most tell-tale tip-off to the nature of the "Orpheus" of Jean Cocteau … is thoughtfully offered by the author in a signed statement ...
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Critical Essay by Jean R. Debrix
Orpheus simultaneously presents two aspects of the poetic process: that of the poet—Cocteau; and that of an ideal poetic instrument—the cinema….
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Critical Essay by C. A. Lejeune
I cannot pretend to know what [Orpheus] all means, and I have a lurking suspicion that Cocteau doesn't know either, but I do know that it sent me out of the the...
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Critical Essay by Bosley Crowther
