La Villa Santo-Sospir

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name = La Villa Santo-Sospir


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director = Jean Cocteau
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runtime = 35-minutes
country = flagicon|France France
language = French
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imdb_id = 0206394

"La Villa Santo-Sospir" is a 35-minute amateur or home film directed by Jean Cocteau in which Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by Picasso), and we are given an extensive tour of the artwork. Cocteau also shows us several dozen paintings, most of which cover mythological themes. He also proudly shows paintings by Edouard Dermithe and Jean Marais and plays around his own home in Villefranche. The informality of the project once again shows the joy Cocteau takes in creating art, in addition to showing a side of his work (his paintings and drawings) that his films often overshadow.

External links

* [http://www.ubu.com/film/cocteau.html Film at Ubuweb film]
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