THE TESTAMENT OF ORPHEUS Review Part II
Edouard Dhermitte, Jean Cocteau in The Testament of Orpheus
Oh my, how poets suffer! It seems that the Orpheus characters, Death (Maria Casarès — who did not age well; she actually resembles Vampira from Plan 9 from Outer Space) and Heurtebise (François Périer), resent being conjured by the magic of a poet, and want to try Cocteau for his sins. Of course, his sin is not sinning, and his sentence is being condemned to live — a wistful thought for the then seventy-year-old Cocteau, whose own real life son Edouard Dhermitte reprises his role as the poet Cégeste from Orpheus.
The whole trial scene plays out like a retarded ‘lost’ episode from the classic 1967 surreal British television series The Prisoner, [...]
by Dan Schneider | December 17, 2006
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