Cinema Atlas Connection

Well, Cocteau had a sort of poetic realism. He liked fantasy but he didn’t like special effects. His films were fantasies that were essentially psychological dramas that played in a real world. And that’s what I was trying to do. I didn’t want the monsters to be rubber, I wanted them to be mental. I wanted the transformation to be sexual and psychological rather than physical. And that’s very much what Cocteau did in Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus. He played with that line between the consciou

Cocteau had a sort of poetic realism. He liked fantasy but he didn't like special effects. His films were fantasies that were essentially psychological dramas that played in a real world.