Behind the scenes of Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête

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”The poet never asks for admiration; he wants to be believed.”
—Jean Cocteau
*The Kiss
* Dual

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“What the public reproaches you for, cultivate: it is you.” - Jean Cocteau

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"The movie screen is the true mirror reflecting the flesh and blood of my dreams."
- Jean Cocteau

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Jean Cocteau–who died 1963–held true to certain principles of artistic creation in all his work. One of these principles was the invocation of mystery: “the less a work of art is understood, the less quickly it will open its petals & the less quickly it will wither.”

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Day 7 - “Enchanted.”
Being enchanted is not always enchanting. :-/
From Cocteau’s “Beauty & the Beast” (1946)

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Au moment de plonger sous les vagues du songe
Tu sembles hésiter ;
Craindrais-tu, par hasard, qu’à ta suite je plonge
Et du même côté.

Ne crains rien.....

Cocteau

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September 17th, a great day for releases:

The Runaways/Cherry Bomb/76

Oingo Boingo EP/80

Pretenders/Back on the Chain Gang/82

Howard Jones/New Song/83

The Cure/Close to Me/85

Depeche Mode/World In My Eyes/90

Cocteau Twins/Heaven or Las Vegas/90

The Cure/Never Enough/90

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No.702
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
Director: David DeCocteau

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Painting after Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast.

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.: "Jean Cocteau meets David Lynch with a good dash of Colette in Bertrand Mandico's sensationally trippy 2018 release, THE WILD BOYS."
Screening Friday & Saturday at midnite; part of our series LOVE IS LOVE.
https://t.co/LN1WoacEI2

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Thing I can’t stop thinking about: jean cocteau’s anime eyes

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Created in 1911, "Le Spectre d'une Rose" had Tamara Karsavina danced the Young Girl and Vaslav Nijinsky as the Spectre. The ballet became emblematic for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.

Recent colorization of vintage pics
Playbill by Jean Cocteau
Illustration by George Barbier (1913)

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“I am burning myself up and will always do so.” - Jean Cocteau

-Opium, Manink-

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🙋‍ Les activités pédagogiques du musée à destination du jeune public reprendront mercredi 10 octobre 2018 avec l’atelier Valerio Adami et le langage des couleurs !
+infos : https://t.co/Qr6qTjNUWj

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