POÉSIE CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE. Tribute to Jean Cocteau’s cinema on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the poet’s demise.

The National Cinema Museum renders tribute to the great and tormented French poet Jean Cocteau, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of his demise, with a retrospective dedicated to his cinema titled POÉSIE CINÉMATOGRAPHIQUE, programmed on Screen Three at the Cinema Massimo from Monday 4 to Tuesday 12 November 2013.

Part of the 2013 Turin meets France programme and organised with the collaboration of the Alliance Française de Turin, this showcase will be inaugurated on Monday 4 November at 4.30 p.m. with the double-bill screening of the film Le sang d'un poète (The blood of a poet), and the short-film La villa Santo Sospir (France 1952, 31’, col., o.v., it. subt). Admission 3.00 euro for Alliance members, admission 6.00/4.00/3.00 euro for all others.