Indifferent Adonis

(festival title)
  • France Le Bel Indifférent
Short / Drama
France, 1957, 29 min

Directed by:

Jacques Demy

Screenplay:

Jean Cocteau (theater play)

Cinematography:

Marcel Fradetal

Composer:

Maurice Jarre
(more professions)

Plots(1)

This adaptation of Jean Cocteau’s eponymous one-act play (1940) is, as the director puts it, “as formally austere as a prayer” and talks about a woman’s suffering and her indifferent lover. It was initially written for Edith Piaf who excelled in the play on stage. (Summer Film School)