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Jean Cocteau's surrealist classic Classic French surrealist fantasy written and directed by Jean Cocteau. A young poet sketches a face, the mouth of which comes to life, becomes affixed to the poet's hand, and is then transferred from his hand onto a statue. Instructed by the statue, the poet then flees into a mirror, entering a series of adventures in an alarming fantasy world...

The Blood of a Poet (1932)
55 min
In a poet’s room, an armless statue abruptly comes to life. It invites the poet to step through a mirror and to discover another world. Strange places and characters present themselves to him. The poet tears himself away from these twisted fascinations and returns, with some difficulty, to his room.