THE HEARTS OF AGE
UNSEEN CINEMA
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7m 57s
"It's nothing at all. Absolutely nothing. It was a joke. I wanted to make a parody of Jean Cocteau's first film [THE BLOOD OF A POET]. That's all. We shot it in two hours, for fun, on Sunday afternoon. It has no sort of meaning." - Orson Welles
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