Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths (1997)
This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting contributions by Jean Marais and especially Jean-Luc Godard, who discusses Cocteau's foray into cinema. The film documents all the artistic media explored by a man who defined himself, first and foremost, as a poet.
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Jean Cocteau
as Self (archive footage)
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ kɔkto]; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager, playwright, artist and filmmake...
Jean-Luc Godard
as Self
Jean-Luc Godard (December 3, 1930 – September 13, 2022) was a French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic. He rose to prominence as a pioneer of the 1960s French New Wave film movement an...
Jean Marais
as Self
Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), was a French actor and director.
Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Marais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contr...
Alejandro Jodorowsky
as Self
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Alejandro Jodorowsky Prullansky, known as Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 17 February 1929) is a Chilean filmmaker, playwright, composer and writer with a large cult...
Henri Alekan
as Self
Henri Alekan (10 February 1909, Paris – 15 June 2001, Auxerre, Bourgogne) was a French cinematographer.
Alekan was born in Montmartre in 1909. At the age of sixteen he and his brother became travelli...
Jean Babilée
as Self
Jean Babilée (real name Jean Gutman(n); 3 February 1923 – 30 January 2014) was a prominent French dancer and choreographer of the latter half of the 20th century. He is considered to have been one of...
Director
Noël Simsolo