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Was a good idea to talk this book, since teau talks so well, and digresses just ough to make the dialogue an improve- alent on an essay or a journal. It is not a rePetition of the Diary of a Film and the Inaking of La Belle et la Bete, but there is a great deal of detail about the making of Prphee and other films which will be of great Interest to those who are mainly interested Cocteau as a film-maker. There are many Ilenging statements in his usual style, 11 as "The best films have been made by Russians," or "nothing . . . can be more gar than musical synchronism in films"; re are also some descriptions of 16mm. S made by Cocteau and his friends in ir spare time which one would give much see,
ror those more interested in the wider Plications of the film industry Cocteau velops the theory that a film can only reach mall audience if it first reaches a big one, r without this appeal it can never be made the first place. At the same time he attacks terly the false elite' which tries to separate mass-audience from the film-makers. e have no public any more, we have only dges," he says and, like many of the emarks in this book, this is true of other
arts as well as the cinema. M. C.
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