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Jean
Cocteau's 1950 variation on the Orpheus myth has the
compressed and expressive brilliance of poetry, and the
exuberance of sublime music. It is a ghost story, a tragedy,
a policier and a drawing room comedy: a captivating story
performed with childlike unselfconsciousness. Cocteau
devises ingenious theatrical stage-sets and suggests the
dreamlike and the uncanny with low-tech visual effects,
which still look remarkably persuasive
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