It’s precisely the questions and challenges of visibility that Cocteau’s film so masterfully explores.
Cocteau’s superb take on the Orpheus myth ascends to glorious audio and visual resolution.
A near-perfect cinematic integration of beguiling fantasy, hard-won technical achievement, and sophisticated self-reflection.
The way Dolan shyly but boastfully showed me the Cocteau tattoo on his arm is not something I’m likely to forget.
‘Tis the season for surreal culture shock.
This is a solid disc that does justice to Jean-Pierre Melville and Jean Cocteau’s puzzler.
A key influence on the French New Wave, Les Enfants Terribles is a film that is difficult to classify.
Being a kid in the 1970’s had its advantages, the least of which was not being responsible for the horrific clothing your parents made you wear.