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Theater/Cine :: Film/Pelicula
Testament of Orpheus / El testamento de Orfeo
5:00 PM
Cafe Libreria Revueltas
Testament of Orpheus / El testamento de Orfeo Description:
Dir. Jean Cocteau, Francia, 1960
Audio: French/Francés. Subtítulos: Spanish or English / Español o ingles
A poet sees the time of his death approaching and decides to take stock of his life and his work. Between dreams of immortality and desire for rebirth, a series of surrealist characters will parade, in a precise analysis of the artist's inspirations, phobias and obsessions.
Testament of Orpheus is Jean Cocteau's latest film and also his most expansive artistic statement. Responding to almost all the images and ideas about creation and mortality found in Blood of a Poet, Cocteau concluded both his art and his life with this luminous work.

Un poeta ve que se acerca la hora de su muerte y decide hacer balance de su vida y de su obra. Entre sueños de inmortalidad y ansias de renacimiento irá desfilando una serie de surrealistas personajes, en un preciso análisis de las inspiraciones, fobias y obsesiones del artista.
Testament of Orpheus es la última película de Jean Cocteau y además, su declaración artística más expansiva. Respondiendo a casi todas las imágenes e ideas sobre la creación y la mortalidad encontradas en Blood of a Poet, Cocteau concluyó tanto su arte como su vida con esta luminosa obra.
Age Group: Teen to Adult
Venue: Cafe Libreria Revueltas
Address: 700 Pino Suarez, Local 12-B, entrada por Callejon de Zarate (a la altura del Llano) Oaxaca de Juarez, Oaxaca, Mexico 68000
Phone: (951)4274836

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