First volume of two covering the artist’s journals between 1950-1969
whose wide-ranging work—impossible to categorise—challenged ideas about identity
Translated by Michael Impey and Brian Swann
in which hundreds of errors have been corrected
Diary of a Film operating First volume of two coveringFilm Desk Books, 2022. Hardcover, 162pp., 8 x 6 inches New Beginning on August 26, 1945, the day before shooting began, until June 1, 1946, the day after the film was first screened, Jean Cocteau kept a diary of the making of his masterpiece Beauty and the Beast. Throughout he details every stage of production, as he faces and surmounts numerous obstacles including severe problems with his health, and ultimately the great pleasures of camaraderie with