La Villa Santo-Sospir(1952)

Name: La Villa Santo-Sospir
Director: Jean Cocteau
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1952-01-01
Duration: 36 min
Cast: Jean Cocteau, Édouard Dermithe, Francine Weisweiller

Jean Cocteau Édouard Dermithe Francine Weisweiller

Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend's villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by Picasso), and we are given an extensive tour of the artwork. Cocteau also shows us several dozen paintings as well. Most cover mythological themes, of course. He also proudly shows paintings by Edouard Dermithe and Jean Marais and plays around his own home in Villefranche.