Jean Cocteau and his adopted son Edouard "Doudou" Dermit during filming of "Le Testament d’Orphée". Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1959.

During the filming of *Le Testament d’Orphée*, Jean Cocteau holds a white skull prop to his face while his adopted son, Edouard “Doudou” Dermit, looks on with a contemplative expression. In Cocteau's other hand is a dark flower. They stand before a large, stylized mosaic of a face, split between light and dark tiles and set into a vine-covered wall in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 1959.

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FilmSet, Masks

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