In each, death is seen as an unavoidable doorway to the realm of dreams and visions, country that only be entered by forfeiting the conscious self. This dichotomy is a recurrent theme found in his “Orphic trilogy” consisting of this film, Orphèe ( Orpheus, 1950) and Le testament d’Orphée ( Testament of Orpheus, 1960). He said, “A poet is in a way the work-hand whose act engages a self more profound than himself, which he doesn’t know too well, mysterious forces which inhabit him and which he knows poorly.” He drew a line between his mundane and artistic personas.
In August of 1963, two months before his death, Jean Cocteau recorded on film a “speech to the year 2000” in which he mused on his creative process.
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