Film Maudit 2.0: A Celebration of the Outrageous, the Overlooked, and the Accidentally Uplifting

A scene from “Bloody Oranges.”

The literal translation of the term film maudit is “cursed film.” Well, back in 1949, the writer/director/god Jean Cocteau headed a jury that pulled together a showcase of cinematic offerings that’d been overlooked at the time or were deemed “shocking, outré, and bold.” The result: the apparently legendary Festival du Film…