Great Writers: Jean Cocteau

This episode of the Great Writers series salutes multifaceted French artist Jean Cocteau, whose wide-ranging abilities spelled success in a variety of creative fields. He was a poet, a painter and an actor. He wrote for the opera and the stage. Cocteau's novel Les Enfants Terribles is considered a 20th-century masterpiece, as is his film Beauty and the Beast, which stands out as a hallmark of the avant-garde movement in cinema.