La Villa Santo-Sospir

6.5
1952

Genre: Documentary , Short

About: The moving pciture La Villa Santo-Sospir was first seen in the year 1952. Soap2day provided links that you can view and you can add subtitles of your choice to every one of them.

Plot: While Jean-Pierre Melville was shooting The Terrible Children (1950), Mrs Francine Weisweiller met Jean Cocteau. Shortly after that meeting, the owner invited the director to spend a vacation in her villa. Before long, however, Jean Cocteau, who felt he was suffering from artistic inactivity, proposed to draw something in the living room. The result was Apollo's head--the Greek god of music, poetry, and art--that adorned the fireplace. That is how Cocteau began painting the walls of Villa Santo Sospir, which means "sacred sigh". In total, Cocteau created around two hundred drawings, or "tattoos" as he used to call them. Read More