Correspondances : Jean Cocteau - Pablo Picasso
MovieTitle | Correspondances : Jean Cocteau - Pablo Picasso |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Sep 4, 2021 |
Genre | Documentary, History |
Director | Dorothée Lachaud |
Production country | France |
Production companies | Schuch Productions, Bibliothèque nationale de France, INA |
Run time | 52 min. |
Correspondences are fragments of life seized in the flesh of the great History. The one between Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau explores forty-eight years of a complex and tormented artistic friendship. Through their letters, the film unfolds the story of a talent and a genius, a unique story that sweeps across the artistic and political spectrum of fifty years of the twentieth century: cubism, Russian ballets, Guernica, the Occupation and the purge, Dora Maar, Jean Marais, Cocteau's film poetry, Picasso's ceramics and the Mediterranean sky.