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Born July 5, 1889 · Maison Laffitte, Yvelines, France
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 filmmaker. Along with other avant-garde artists of his generation (Jean Anouilh and René Char for example) Cocteau grappled with the algebra of verbal codes old and new, mise en scène language and technologies of modernism to create a paradox: a classical avant-garde.[citation needed] His circle of associates, friends and lovers included Kenneth Anger, Pablo Picasso, Jean Hugo, Jean Marais, Henri Bernstein, Marlene Dietrich, Coco Chanel, Erik Satie, María Félix, Édith Piaf (whom he cast in one of his one-act plays entitled Le Bel Indifferent in 1940), and Raymond Radiguet. His work was played out in the theatrical world of the Grands Theatres, the Boulevards and beyond during the Parisian epoque he both lived through and helped define and create. His versatile, unconventional approach and enormous output brought him international acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Cocteau, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Jean Cocteau
2024

Daedalus
2024

Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur
2022

A Night at the Opera
2020

Cocteau—Al Brown: the Poet and the Boxer
2020

Art of Style: Jean Cocteau
2018

The Image Book
2018

Iran Darroudi: The Painter of Ethereal Moments
2009

Callas Assoluta
2007

To Each His Own Cinema
2007

The Last Days of an Icon: Edith Piaf
2006

Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
2006

Cocteau and Company
2003

Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
2001

Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
1997

Great Writers: Jean Cocteau
1996
Steel Cathedrals
1985

Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown
1984
Disorder Is 20 Years Old
1967

In This Atrocious Garden
1964

Portrait Souvenir: Jean Cocteau
1964

The Infernal Machine
1963

Marcel Proust - Portrait Souvenir
1962

Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000
1962

In Search of Marcel Proust
1962

Beyond the Riviera
1960

America as Seen by a Frenchman
1960

Testament of Orpheus
1960