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Orpheus (Paulvé; Discina), Avant-Gardist Jean Cocteau's latest plunge through the lookingglass, carries him into an enigmatic dream world that blends myth, realistic thriller and fantasy. Laureled in Venice, praised and damned in Paris and London, it is a film to frustrate any moviegoer who demands a logical explanation of what he is looking at. For those willing to drift with Cocteau's reverie, catching what wisps of meaning they can, the movie is an interesting experience...
...Eagle Has Two Heads (translated from the French of Jean Cocteau by Ronald Duncan; produced by John C. Wilson) and, what's more remarkable, flies backwards. Famed French Avant-Gardist Cocteau's "romantic melodrama" is outdated purple-&-plush palace theatrics, which starts off with a poet-revolutionist plunging through a window into the royal boudoir, and winds up with a dying queen toppling headlong down a vast flight of stairs...