The Blood of a Poet
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Jean Cocteau Run Time: 55 min. Release Year: 1932 Language: French
Starring: Elizabeth Lee Miller, Enrique Rivero, Jean Desbordes, Odette Talazac, Pauline Carton
Enter the world of visionary filmmaker Jean Cocteau, as we take you to where it all began–The Blood Of The Poet!
Part silent cinema séance, part avant-garde fever dream, The Blood of a Poet was made in collaboration with the legendary Vicomte de Noailles and shot in the aftermath of a scandalized art world, the film plays like a lucid dream you’re not entirely sure you woke from.
Banned, booed, and eventually canonized, The Blood of a Poet is not a film that explains itself. It folds in on itself—layered with Catholic iconography, queer longing, and the kind of experimental imagery that would echo through Lynch, Jarman, and surrealists for decades to come.