Description: French director, poet, novelist, dramatist, and illustrator Jean Cocteau is known for being one of the most versatile and diversely talented artists of the twentieth century. Le Testament d'Orphee is Cocteau's last film and completes his Orphic trilogy. Part autobiography, part manifesto, and intensely personal, this film is considered to be a representation of Cocteau's life as an artist. "Jean Cocteau: Testament of Orpheus" is a photographic journal, a synopsis, and a tribute to Cocteau's final film. During the making of Le Testament d'Orphee, photographer and close friend Lucien Clergue was on hand to document the filming. Capturing the essential scenes and symbols from the movie, Clergue's photographs offer an iconic summation of Cocteau's most important film. This book is an intriguing elaboration on the photographs of Clergue and the cinema of Cocteau, as well as on surrealism and the myth of Orpheus. For followers of Cocteau and Clergue, and those interested in vital works of cinema, photography, and surrealism, "Jean Cocteau: Testament of Orpheus" is both revelation and inspiration. Text will include an essay by an authority on French cultural history and a memoir by Clergue.

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