Jean Cocteau
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The Spanish auteur’s joyous half-hour film The Human Voice, now on Mubi, makes you wish that more top directors would occasionally keep it brief
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4 out of 5 stars.
The Human Voice review – Tilda Swinton on the verge in Almodóvar’s tale of despair
4 out of 5 stars.Swinton plays a woman abandoned by her lover in a short, affecting drama that echoes the uncertainties of lockdown
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The actor, who stars alongside Justin Timberlake in Palmer, recalls her love of Eminem, the magic of Jean Cocteau and why she is fascinated by corsetry
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27 June 1988 The fact is that high fashion is, and always has been, a surrealist movement
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Jane Bown’s first trip to Paris resulted in this memorable portrait of the French artist and writer
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5 out of 5 stars.Jean Marais’ journey through the underworld gains new strangeness and rapture in this restoration of Jean Cocteau’s 1950 Orpheus myth
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4 out of 5 stars.Gate theatre, London
Guilt, anguish and female torment simmer within a stunning star turn in this revival of Jean Cocteau’s study of a woman on the brink
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A gushing love letter to the French capital features De Beauvoir, Sartre, Samuel Beckett and wave after and wave of oversexed, overpaid Americans
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3 out of 5 stars.Top-flight dancers, Javier de Frutos moves, Philip Glass score and Cocteau’s twisted tale don’t quite add up
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5 out of 5 stars.Claire Booth gives an unforgettably intense performance as the abandoned mistress in WNO’s stylish immersive Poulenc/Cocteau staging
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Is it gait, cut of the jib, garb or charismatic charm? Sift through your musical wardrobes for songs that mention qualities of magnetism, prestige or allure, says Peter Kimpton
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Her first commission for the Observer was a portrait of philosopher Bertrand Russell in 1949. From then, Bown photographed the great and the good, the rich and the poor, the ordinary and extraordinary with a compassionate and gentle eyeGallery
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Virtuoso French Gypsy guitarist with a unique playing style and a celebrity following
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Biographer Meryle Secrest is enthusiastic in pursuit of the elusive designer whose friends included Dalí and Hitler’s ambassador to Paris, writes Rachel Cooke
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The Oscar-winning director of 12 Years a Slave has pushed back the boundaries of film because of the fearlessness that comes with a background in art
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5 out of 5 stars.
Almost 70 years on, the Jean Cocteau classic has lost none of its wonder and mystery, writes Xan Brooks
The Human Voice review – Ruth Wilson fails to connect in Jean Cocteau’s tale of despair
2 out of 5 stars.