Cocteau, according to Annette Insdorf, “left behind a body of work unequalled for its variety of artistic expression.” He was described as "one of avant-garde's most successful and influential filmmakers" by AllMovie. He is best known for his novels Le Grand Écart (1923), Le Livre blanc (1928), and Les Enfants Terribles (1929) the stage plays La Voix Humaine (1930), La Machine Infernale (1934), Les Parents terribles (1938), La Machine à écrire (1941), and L'Aigle à deux têtes (1946) and the films The Blood of a Poet (1930), Les Parents Terribles (1948), Beauty and the Beast (1946), Orpheus (1950), and Testament of Orpheus (1960), which alongside Blood of a Poet and Orpheus constitute the so-called Orphic Trilogy. The National Observer suggested that, “of the artistic generation whose daring gave birth to Twentieth Century Art, Cocteau came closest to being a Renaissance man.” He was one of the foremost creatives of the surrealist, avant-garde, and Dadaist movements and one of the most influential figures in early 20th-century art as a whole. Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau ( UK: / ˈ k ɒ k t oʊ/, US: / k ɒ k ˈ t oʊ/, French: 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic.
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