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“Commissioned to do a film on Cocteau, I immediately looked for a form that would make it worthwhile. The (self) ‘portrait' seemed the most challenging--to summon from the dead a poet's voice and have only that ‘articulated breathing' tell us about the man who uttered it. The basic choice allowed me to follow Cocteau's fascinating strategies of self-exposure and concealment, a poet masquerading as a manual worker, a showman trying hard to become a myth. ‘I am a lie that always tells the truth', Cocteau liked to say, and his voice always tells us more than it says. I started to edit the soundtrack, chosen from nearly twenty hours of recorded interviews, and only later to choose the images that would play with, around or against that soundtrack--images of Cocteau by others, of others by himself, or by myself of the places still haunted by him.” Edgardo Cozarinsky
Argentine-born Edgardo Cozarinsky's documentary feature One Man's War was a highlight of last year's San Francisco International Film Festival.