pretty good film about the immortal of someones being and physicallity throught their art.
i love that and its surreal story, i would say some of its scenes are to slow imo but its still good,(also watch my 79 min film https://boxd.it/cQ1mBp )
Testament of Orpheus
Rating
4.0 (1)
Release Date
2/18/1960Runtime
80 minsGenres
Overview
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.
Status
ReleasedOriginal Language
FrenchBudget
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A poetic meditation on artistic legacy and mortality, unfolding as a series of symbolic encounters in a dreamlike liminal space. Watching it feels like drifting through a filmmaker's philosophical reverie about what remains of us after death.
Mood
WistfulContemplativeMelancholic
Themes
Art and creationMortalityIdentityMemory
Tone
Earnest
Pacing
Meditative
Look
Stylized genrePainterly
Structure
Nonlinear
Jean Cocteau
The Poet
Edouard Dermithe
Cégeste
Henri Crémieux
The Professor
François Périer
Heurtebise
Claudine Auger
Minerve
Françoise Arnoul
Self (uncredited)
Lucia Bosè
Orphée's Friend
Charles Aznavour
The Curious Man
Brigitte Bardot
Self (uncredited)
Jean Marais
Oedipe
Daniel Gélin
The Intern (uncredited)
Françoise Christophe
The Nurse (uncredited)
Reviews
The Orphic Trilogy
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