Cocteau's Orphee

[poliphilo]

I'm sick of CGI; give me good old handmade special effects.

There's more magic in a single frame of this movie than in the whole Potter franchise thus far.

Love the talking Rolls Royce. So that's where they got the idea for Knight Rider!

L'oiseau chante avec ses doights.

What is it with me and dead girls? The last movie female I fell in love with was Moaning Myrtle. Now I'm in love with Maria Casares.

Cocteau may have been gay, but surely he was in love with Maria too?

Me, him, the camera: we all love Maria Casares.

Comments

[currawong.livejournal.com]

Hugely pretentious,rather silly in that uniquely French, arty way ...but very beautiful and not a single explosion or car-chase. I'd love to show it to the director of "Rambo3" or "Death Wish 12", if only to see the looks of total bewilderment on their faces at being confronted with a movie that aspires to visual poetry.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Silly, yes; but I think he knew when he was being silly. All that hide and seek stuff at the end. I love it that the world of the film is big enough to accomodate both high tragedy and farce.

It's a cliche to say they don't make 'em like that any more; but they don't.