Jean Cocteau: Autobiography of an Unknown

00:00:15 It is no longer the same journey

00:04:49 and words emerge that one would otherwise not allow to emerge

00:09:22 Cibori was a midget. He ate berries with a toothpick.

00:11:45 At that time I wrote absurd poems

00:14:14 When Diaghilev commissioned him to write the ballet "Parade"

00:17:10 I still see Nijinsky ready for his role as the Slave

00:20:00 I can still see the old Countess of Pourtales standing

00:22:39 He said, "Meet my fiancée, we're leaving for Italy

00:25:28 Such a play in our times would be impossible.

00:28:38 to establish the moral and material direction of the family

00:31:00 Writing is drawing in different apparel

00:33:28 I shut myself in for two years

00:37:25 You've shouted enough everywhere that if you'd meet him

00:39:52 Pardon me for speaking to you with eyes that are not mine

00:41:53 Besides, if what one called the Hercules, the colossus

00:43:59 instead of seeing them from afar on stage

00:47:15 I wasn't sure, I just knew he was exceptional.

00:49:37 He was 19 when he wrote his second masterpiece

00:52:20 the young man joined the Trappist Order.

00:54:57 were internationalist declarations of my own making.

00:57:28 I am an unknown celebrity. At the time when I received

00:59:45 consisting of transforming figures into numbers and put me

01:01:54 at a time when tragedy is highly regarded.

01:04:33 because I love to love and love being loved and this film shows