Blood of a Poet pt. 2

Duration: 12:00

Year Published: 1932

Creator: Vicomte de Noailles

Complete Record: As the film opens, a tall factory chimney leans and begins to fall, the scene is interrupted by a narrator and director Jean Cocteau begins what he terms "a realistic documentary composed of unreal happenings". The main body of the film is composed of four episodes: 1. The wounded Hand or the Scars of the Poet. 2. Do walls have ears? 3. The Snow Ball fight. 4. The profanation of the Host. The central character is a poet who passes through a series of symbolic actions and metaphoric tableaux. In French with English subtitles.