Jean Cocteau acting in his last film "Le Testament d’Orphée". He asked many of his friends to appear, amongst others Francine Weisweiller and on the balcony Italian painters Renato Guttuso and Alberto Magnelli, Pablo Picasso and Pablo Picasso's tailor Michele Sapone. Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat 1959.
A surreal scene unfolds during the filming of Jean Cocteau's "Le Testament d’Orphée" in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, 1959. Below, the director himself, in a light-colored suit with styled hair, gestures expressively beside Francine Weisweiller, who is in a Victorian gown holding a parasol. A figure in a horned mask emerges from a doorway. Observing the theatrical tableau from the ivy-clad balcony are friends Cocteau invited to appear in his final film: painters Renato Guttuso and Alberto Magnelli, Pablo Picasso, and Picasso’s tailor, Michele Sapone.
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