Camden Arts Centre
Arkwright Road
NW3
020.7472.5500
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Le Sang d'un Poete
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Wednesday 5 Nov 2008 (8pm)
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Tube: Finchley Road, Hampstead
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Although Le Sang d'un Poete (The Blood of a Poet) is best known for photographer Lee Miller's only cinematic appearance, it was also French writer Jean Cocteau's directorial debut. The movie remains an artistic affair despite Cocteau's assertion that "film will only become art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper". Among the avant-garde series of surreal tableaux are a child pulling faces at a dead body, a poet smashing a statue and a cameo by legendary Texan drag-queen aerialist Barbette.
