Movies

Produced and conceived by French filmmakers Jean Cocteau and François Villiers, with a screenplay by Langston Hughes, Rhythm of Africa takes a...

In August 1963, just a couple of months before his death, Jean Cocteau made one last short film. The film comprises one still and highly sober shot...

Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström takes on Jean Cocteau's The Human Voice.

Short based on the Jean Cocteau play following a final telephone conversation between a couple.

A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.

A short film about a famous writer who loses control of his hand and begins to write letters and articles denouncing himself.

In 1930 Jean Cocteau premiered "La Voz Humana" in Paris. In 2013, actress Karina Gidi interprets "La Voz Humana" under the direction and adaptation...

Yvonne is seething when her devoted son, Michael, declares his intention to marry Madeleine, despite the latter's admitting to having an affair with...

La Voix Humaine is a concerto for soprano and orchestra, centering on the break-up of a relationship by telephone. It represents one side of a...

Over the course of one day, a woman carries on a vacillating conversation with her lover over several phone calls. She is at times conciliatory,...

On a foggy afternoon, a woman who is lost in the middle of the countryside, finally reaches him on the phone. She calls him “darling” but...

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is...

Short film by Harry Kümel based upon a poem by Jean Cocteau.

"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." A 7 day vlog during the summer of 2023, a story of dreamers and drowners.

On the banks of the Seine and in the metro, Édith Stockhausen performs a poem by Jean Cocteau.

A television adaptation of Jean Cocteau's surréalist take on the tragedy of Oedipus.

This documentary is a portrait of Proust composed of recollections by those who knew him. Intercut with reading from his works.

A woman’s last phone conversation with her lover, who now loves someone else.

An elegant young woman in her messy room answers the phone call from her lover. This one, who intends to leave her, tries to make her understand what...