Jean Cocteau Addresses the Year 2000 (1962)

• 67%
• 1962
• Documentary
• Jean Cocteau

August 1963. From the lavishly decorated living room of Mrs Francine Weisweiller's La villa Santo Sospir (1952), Jean Cocteau, at the age of 74, sets up his camera and contemplates the then-distant year 2000. With unparalleled modernity, only a few months before his death, Jean Cocteau addresses the youth of tomorrow, expressing his hopes and intimate fears of the prospect of an emotionless, almost robotic future. Convinced that death is nothing more than an expression of life, Jean Cocteau ponders whether evolution and progress are the development of an error. In his both touching and sad spoken message--his final film and final communication to people yet to be born--Jean Cocteau reveals his vision of the second millennium: a tug-of-war between the old and the new, technology and humanity, history and myth.