Le Testament d'Orph_e

Le Testament d'Orph_e

Release Date:  2/18/1960
Country of Release:  France
Length:  79/83 minutes
MPAA:  NR
Medium:  Video
Genre:  BIO DRA
Release Message:  The poet Jean Cocteau is lost in space-time. He has been in the 18th century and is now turning up at different moments in professor Langevin's life.
Description:  The Poet looks back over his life and work, recalling his inspirations and obsessions. The poet Jean Cocteau is lost in space-time. He has been in the 18th century and is now turning up at different moments in professor Langevin's life. The professor has invented some bullets, which travel faster than light. With one of them he kills Cocteau, who is resurrected as his old self, but is still caught in the space between fantasy and reality. At a gypsy camp a woman saves a photo out of the fire and restores it. On the photo Cocteau recognizes C_geste from his film Orph_e. He tears the photo into pieces and throws it into the sea. Immediately C_geste himself jumps out of the water. He brings Cocteau to a rogatory commission led by Heurtebise and The Princess from the film Orph_e. Cocteau admits that he has constantly attempted to enter a world which is not his own, a world that is beyond the limits of man, and that disobedience is like a religion for him. The commission imposes on him the sentence of life. In a hall inside some stone ruins the goddess Athena kills Cocteau ...