Jean Cocteau
Lisa Immordino Vreeland (SIFF 2021’s Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation) constructs an astonishing portrait of polymath Jean Cocteau—filmmaker, playwright, poet—told in his own words using his journals, letters, and artistic works.
Producer/Editor John Northrup scheduled to attend.
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Monday, May 19, 2025
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
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Monday, May 26 - Sunday, June 1, 2025
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Jean Cocteau was a man who followed his creative impulses without calculation and, along the way, accidentally became famous. This documentary follows a similar muse, eschewing the by-the-numbers, chronological format that is all-too-common in a doc about an artist for a more free-flowing structure. Under the inspired hands of director Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, SIFF 2021), it moves from his films to his poems to his theatre works to his drawings and back again. But Cocteau doesn’t just speak through his art here. Included are filmed interviews with him, readings of his letters and diary entries by actor Josh O’Connor (Challengers), along with an address he made to the youth of the future that he shot in 1960. Whether you’re familiar with his work or you’ve just heard of him, Jean Cocteau will inspire you to not only look back at his art, but create art of your own. It’s that good.
- Director: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
- Principal Cast: Voice: Josh O’Connor
- Country: USA
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 94 min.
- Producer: Lisa Immordino Vreeland, John Northrup
- Screenplay: John Northrup, Lisa Immordino Vreeland
- Cinematographers: Shane Sigler
- Editors: John Northrup
- Music: Claire Cowan
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: Unknown Beauty: François Nars (2023), Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation (2020), Love, Cecil (2017), Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (2015), Diana Vreeland: The Eye has to Travel (2011)
- Language: English, French
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- Format: DCP