I always knew I liked him as a director and as an artist, but thanks to this video I now really like him as a human being. He spoke wisely but modestly, and that's a rare combination. "One thinks that the word genius is not to be used and that genius only belongs to Goethe, to Victor Hugo, to Shakespeare, but no! Genius can be the way a woman steps out of her car", I think this one is going to stay with me for a long time... what a lovely, beautiful person he was!
The way he looks at camera; that almost fixed, but immensely vibrant gaze... He truthfully believed he is speaking to some unidentified future, filled with fellow humans and their, from and to eternity, tormented souls. Such a strange feeling to watch this in 2021. How transitory embodiment of Spirit we all are, or should aspire to become...
Thank you very much for the upload. What a wise, humble and articulate man he was. I feel smarter now than I did 23 minutes and 47 seconds ago before I watched this.
The truth against the world and may it set us free. May all men and women take delight in the inner kingdom that rests within their heart of the soul, the soul of its heart - May love light a candle in each of us and with that express our gratitude and respect in the divine in each other so that we may coexist has one body - may the veil be lifted, that death shall not cloak us with fear in its mist for from the mist we came and to the mist we return.
"Puisque ces mystères nous dépassent, feignons d'en être les organisateurs." "As these mysteries are way over us, let's pretend that we organize them". célèbre citation de Jean Cocteau. Bonjour Mr Jean Cocteau.
I guess the greatest miracle we’ve achieved that started at around 2000 is that, we’re getting at 70% of the world that can reach their pockets and, provided they access the internet, watch this VERY video instantly. Not only that, but with the same devices all of us can find and download every important book. Everyone has all human information at their fingertips. Who could ever imagine this back in 1962 huh?
yeah..and internet has clear effect on creativity..why create new things if you can watch great things instead and get satisfied as much. Jean does talk about electric brain though. so he must have some imagination of a virtual existence of self.
I see many comments stating that cocteau would be disappointed in today's world.. but I don't think he would! we have developed a lot, and even though it doesn't seem it, the world or humans are happier than ever. we have over come war, less people are dying. the world is getting a little crowded in some areas but there is plenty of space elsewhere. Discrimination is become less common and more frowned upon, the youth are smart.. with some exceptions. We are more human than when cocteau was alive a day this was all he had some hoped for. for the world to be a better place, he's a wonderful, intelligent human being and I think he'd be thrilled with the world he have created today
"the world or humans are happier than ever. we have over come war, less people are dying. the world is getting a little crowded in some areas but there is plenty of space elsewhere. Discrimination is become less common and more frowned upon, the youth are smart.. with some exceptions." ????????????
Cosmin Sandu yes there are improvements but not to the extent where they can be celebrated. People's happiness tends to sit in their escapism away from their troubles and their neighbours. Yes there is space around the world but mostly in inhabitable locations where work and harvesting is scarce. There is more war now, the media doesn't show coverage unless it's masters tell them so, then you have the war on culture, the war on your health, the war on your mind and spirit - the strategy is so intricate now that people do not sense the barrage. Discrimination is now a wolf in sheep's clothing and its target audience is the youth of today, who rightly defend the integrity of all but get misled into playing the role of victim due to liberals being infiltrated by outside agendas that do more harm then good in the name of democracy by trying to stifle the opinion of any opposing thought process. For instance the mass immigration of the middle East was sad to see, people being forced to leave their homelands but refreshing to see them being allowed the opportunity to start again but those of us that understand these elitists with the world's current problem trend (terrorists) that these people would be made scapegoats in causing further division. Peace in our time is a great illusion, they have become smarter and have really captured the minds of today. The only way forward is through the intelligence of the heart. I am born and bred Gypsy and since my childhood I have seen this world lose its pulse, becoming more mind then heart, full of distractions. Living in between two worlds you find what Buddha called the third path, peace. it truly only exits in yourself, sometimes you can share it or indulge in another but rarely in the collective. Maybe one day. Being a poet I agree with everything he says but all our poets if they allow themselves to bask in the glory of the heart, the inner kingdom. I do understand your optimism and the advancements in most fields but I won't smile yet while people still struggle to survive let alone live.
EVERYONE IS A ROBOT As Jean Cocteau said, if you are not living in the present here now, then you are effectively a robot, you are not real, you are dead. What world do you live in? What are you smoking or ingesting?
Acabo de terminar de ver su filmografía (Testament of Orpheus se volvió de mis películas favoritas) y muy pronto comenzaré a leer alguno de sus libros. Ver este mensaje me hizo caer en cuenta que admiro mucho a *Cocteau* , creo que es uno de mis ídolos.
I kept laughing as he spoke..., not because I believe that he is a "crazy,deranged, creative type"...,his sincerity comes through in spite of the barriers of time/language...,IMHO he wants people to remember their past as a guide to the future/facing the unknowns!
Villefranch-sur-Mer is still standing, and the church that Cocteau decorated is still there. Some people remember the novelist Stendhal and the dandy Beau Brummell. They are mentioned on Wiki. I must confess I had not heard of them myself! Alas, we have not invented anti-gravity. We now called electronic brains "computers" and use them frequently. Robots of various kinds are becoming increasingly common. It's notoriously difficult to predict the future, but Cocteau was right in many respects.
"Anti-gravity" - he was talking there is no gravity. Check this video: A new way to visualize General Relativity ruclips.net/video/wrwgIjBUYVc/видео.html "It is not acceptable to describe gravity inside space time, using gravity outside spacetime" "Objects move in a straight line but within curved geometry. When they fall, objects move straight ahead but the curvature of space-time gives us the impression that these trajectories are deflected. "
je suis 2000 , il ne reste rien . tout espoir a disparu . les beaux rêves nous avons chassé nous ont tués à la fin. comme la sirène , le rêve nous a invités dans et détruit notre innocence . il n'y a rien
Merci beaucoup pour le partage, incroyable de voir Jean Cocteau nous parler pour ce 21 siècle qui malheureusement c'est empirée, guerres , perte de la biodiversité, perte de l'individu avec ses ôtes, la science a changé de camp , plus d'armes tout aussi meurtrière , guerre économique, famine , peut-être comme vous l'espériez à votre époque, que ce changement de paradigme se fera par des consciences plus éveillé à une dimension plus poétique et plus spirituel ( ce qui ne veut pas dire religieux) de se ré-approprié le sens du sacré que nous avait donné terre mère et de sa substance, ce changement si elle voit le jour , l'espèce humaine pourra peut-être se frayer de nouveaux sillons , merci beaucoup de nous avoir poster cette conversation de jean Cocteau
Wow. Cocteau nailed electromagnetic gravitics; it is said to create an envelope around the craft which the craft falls forward into as opposed to being propelled through a 'pushing' force. A poetic intermediary indeed.
Unfortunately I didn't know who Jean Cocteau was until after 2000, did anyone watch this in 2000? Its creepy enough watching it in 2015... I can't help but think that Cocteau would have been disappointed in us.
Very disappointed especially with the millennials and beyond. A relative of mine in their late 20s doesn't hold a job, is lazy and stays in their room all day. Yet they have the expensive PC, phones, video games etc. More than I have and I work at 58. I guess my post here is more about my resentments rather than Cocteau but again, he would pale at the uninspired, lazy and unambitiousness of today's youth.
@@theresaakins2317 These lazy kids sitting in their room all day are the result of the secret wars he was talking about. Only difference is that now they kidnap people by feeding them with nonsense and burying them in a pleasure cloud. But srsl the youth is advancing in good pace, science is unbelievable and art is a-okay.
The development of errors that Cocteau observed has certainly developed since the time of his recording. We are governed by systems (usually computerized) that, from a human perspective, contain and continually develop a plethora of misnomers. It's also an intriguing statement when you consider the use of disinformation, "fake news" and the saturation and politicisation of information that defines our times. Fascinating to hear the great artist/writer/intellectual/film maker/surrealist, etc. speak.
THE EYES ARE THE GATEWAY TO THE SOUL [19:48] Close-up view of Jean Cocteau's eyes: the pupils are twice the usual size. In the context of his speech about his "dark mysterious inner me", it could reasonably be concluded that his hidden Shadow side, in the Jungian sense of deep analytical psychology, has taken over his psyche and is possessing him. He asks his audience to remember not his physical image, but rather see his Shadow side of his total persona, and remember him by his "poetic" works. The following is an example of what Jean Cocteau said about science being off-track: According to modern scientific medicine, the cause of dilated eyes (dilated pupils) is that in low light, your pupils open up, or dilate, to let in more light. When it’s bright, they get smaller, or constrict, to let in less light. Sometimes your pupils can dilate without any change in the light. The medical term for it is mydriasis. Medicines, injuries, and diseases can all cause this eye condition.
Hes tring to tell us something you can tell he knows things other people dont it’s obvious that he knows too much and knows he is on a very short time limit. I wish i knew what hes tring to say
Well, he would be disappointed to know that "progress" continues to be an idea developed in error. Frivolity still reigns, either as the shameless kind or that frivolity disguised popularly as social meaningfulness.
He thought there would be flying cars. But unsure if this transmission would exist. He says history is lies, and believes more in mythology? And he's saying he's not responsible for his art? "People think I tend to get tired because my hands do all of the work?" Is it the translation that makes this weird.
It's not the translation, I think it's just an accurate depiction of how his mind works. He felt his hands were separate entities, and so when they worked, he might not get tired.
In this late life interview, Cocteau speaks in an obscure, parenthetic Morse code, e.g., "Even if the means of transmission no longer exist and my image can't be projected anymore, in any case, I hope to be before you as a ghost, even though I don't believe in death. I don't believe in death since it is merely one of the forms of life and I consider that St Augustine wasn't wrong when he said that a man who believed in antipodes was an utter fool..." WTF? This isn't Orphic, poetic utterance. It's as if Cocteau were hallucinating on LSD...mais no! He's stone cold sober. Apologies for not being in agreement with the comments' consensus opinion(s) that Cocteau is a genius or some kind of medium for the divine.
Its the language of poetry - the unconscious, which as Jung pointed out often is communicated in paradox. Cocteau was a genius - look at his films, for example. He may be broadcasting on a different frequency - one which your receiver isn't tuned to, but that is what poetry is for - to communicate with words that which can't be communicated with words - Yes, another paradox.
min 6:10 "an Inca gateway" The "Gateway to the Sun" belongs to the ancient Tiwanaku civilization of the South American highlands (10 000BC). NOT the Incas. Just sayin'
If you heard a pompous, pretentious, self-sufficient tone, you heard him wrong. That is quite the opposite. Perhaps the way he speaks? That's from a time when they had a good linguistic education. I don't regret much of that era, but the way these people were taught, even the most modest, was palpable even if the way they spoke. I teach, and the way kids talk today, the extent of their vocabulary, pales in comparison to kids from that era, as can be observed on many different videos - from different regions of France, in school with kids from different social backgrounds.
This is like the first vlog ever
Fuck you, if that's all you can see.
Because he was so ahead.
thats also what i thought in the first couple minutes
I always knew I liked him as a director and as an artist, but thanks to this video I now really like him as a human being. He spoke wisely but modestly, and that's a rare combination. "One thinks that the word genius is not to be used and that genius only belongs to Goethe, to Victor Hugo, to Shakespeare, but no! Genius can be the way a woman steps out of her car", I think this one is going to stay with me for a long time... what a lovely, beautiful person he was!
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The way he looks at camera; that almost fixed, but immensely vibrant gaze... He truthfully believed he is speaking to some unidentified future, filled with fellow humans and their, from and to eternity, tormented souls. Such a strange feeling to watch this in 2021. How transitory embodiment of Spirit we all are, or should aspire to become...
Well in the end, on his gravestone is written "I'm staying with you" ("Je reste avec vous")
and he has
"It may be that what we call progress may prove to be only the development of an error"
Thank you very much for the upload. What a wise, humble and articulate man he was. I feel smarter now than I did 23 minutes and 47 seconds ago before I watched this.
Merci beaucoup, j'ai toujours aimé Jean Cocteau, qui n'était même pas au programme au lycée, mais heureusement on trouvait ses livres et ses films
He was before his time and also ours.
The truth against the world and may it set us free. May all men and women take delight in the inner kingdom that rests within their heart of the soul, the soul of its heart - May love light a candle in each of us and with that express our gratitude and respect in the divine in each other so that we may coexist has one body - may the veil be lifted, that death shall not cloak us with fear in its mist for from the mist we came and to the mist we return.
I love the analogy of hitchhiking. We feel as if we are going very fast, but we're in a car that's not ours.
such a genious, and so blessed to have this
Such a beautiful person.
"Puisque ces mystères nous dépassent, feignons d'en être les organisateurs." "As these mysteries are way over us, let's pretend that we organize them". célèbre citation de Jean Cocteau. Bonjour Mr Jean Cocteau.
For perspective, this is like me making a video today, speaking to the year 2060, and you watching it in 2082
I guess the greatest miracle we’ve achieved that started at around 2000 is that, we’re getting at 70% of the world that can reach their pockets and, provided they access the internet, watch this VERY video instantly.
Not only that, but with the same devices all of us can find and download every important book. Everyone has all human information at their fingertips.
Who could ever imagine this back in 1962 huh?
too much information.. not much learning...
Yeah, that's truth. It has its drawback: too many distractions.
yeah..and internet has clear effect on creativity..why create new things if you can watch great things instead and get satisfied as much. Jean does talk about electric brain though. so he must have some imagination of a virtual existence of self.
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I see many comments stating that cocteau would be disappointed in today's world.. but I don't think he would! we have developed a lot, and even though it doesn't seem it, the world or humans are happier than ever. we have over come war, less people are dying. the world is getting a little crowded in some areas but there is plenty of space elsewhere. Discrimination is become less common and more frowned upon, the youth are smart.. with some exceptions. We are more human than when cocteau was alive a day this was all he had some
hoped for. for the world to be a better place, he's a wonderful, intelligent human being and I think he'd be thrilled with the world he have created today
"the world or humans are happier than ever. we have over come war, less people are dying. the world is getting a little crowded in some areas but there is plenty of space elsewhere. Discrimination is become less common and more frowned upon, the youth are smart.. with some exceptions." ????????????
Cai Mathieson we've over come war?
Cosmin Sandu yes there are improvements but not to the extent where they can be celebrated. People's happiness tends to sit in their escapism away from their troubles and their neighbours. Yes there is space around the world but mostly in inhabitable locations where work and harvesting is scarce. There is more war now, the media doesn't show coverage unless it's masters tell them so, then you have the war on culture, the war on your health, the war on your mind and spirit - the strategy is so intricate now that people do not sense the barrage.
Discrimination is now a wolf in sheep's clothing and its target audience is the youth of today, who rightly defend the integrity of all but get misled into playing the role of victim due to liberals being infiltrated by outside agendas that do more harm then good in the name of democracy by trying to stifle the opinion of any opposing thought process. For instance the mass immigration of the middle East was sad to see, people being forced to leave their homelands but refreshing to see them being allowed the opportunity to start again but those of us that understand these elitists with the world's current problem trend (terrorists) that these people would be made scapegoats in causing further division. Peace in our time is a great illusion, they have become smarter and have really captured the minds of today.
The only way forward is through the intelligence of the heart. I am born and bred Gypsy and since my childhood I have seen this world lose its pulse, becoming more mind then heart, full of distractions. Living in between two worlds you find what Buddha called the third path, peace. it truly only exits in yourself, sometimes you can share it or indulge in another but rarely in the collective. Maybe one day. Being a poet I agree with everything he says but all our poets if they allow themselves to bask in the glory of the heart, the inner kingdom.
I do understand your optimism and the advancements in most fields but I won't smile yet while people still struggle to survive let alone live.
EVERYONE IS A ROBOT
As Jean Cocteau said, if you are not living in the present here now, then you are effectively a robot, you are not real, you are dead.
What world do you live in? What are you smoking or ingesting?
Acabo de terminar de ver su filmografía (Testament of Orpheus se volvió de mis películas favoritas) y muy pronto comenzaré a leer alguno de sus libros.
Ver este mensaje me hizo caer en cuenta que admiro mucho a *Cocteau* , creo que es uno de mis ídolos.
Wonderful. I love Cocteau's works and just came across this film for the first time. Thank you.
I kept laughing as he spoke..., not because I believe that he is a "crazy,deranged, creative type"...,his sincerity comes through in spite of the barriers of time/language...,IMHO he wants people to remember their past as a guide to the future/facing the unknowns!
Thank you for posting this marvelous piece. From New York with much gratitude.
Beauty Full...
Villefranch-sur-Mer is still standing, and the church that Cocteau decorated is still there. Some people remember the novelist Stendhal and the dandy Beau Brummell. They are mentioned on Wiki. I must confess I had not heard of them myself! Alas, we have not invented anti-gravity. We now called electronic brains "computers" and use them frequently. Robots of various kinds are becoming increasingly common. It's notoriously difficult to predict the future, but Cocteau was right in many respects.
"Anti-gravity" - he was talking there is no gravity.
Check this video:
A new way to visualize General Relativity
ruclips.net/video/wrwgIjBUYVc/видео.html
"It is not acceptable to describe gravity inside space time, using gravity outside spacetime"
"Objects move in a straight line but within curved geometry. When they fall, objects move straight ahead but the curvature of space-time gives us the impression that these trajectories are deflected.
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Thank you for uploading this. Splendid! That's a sub!
je suis 2000 , il ne reste rien . tout espoir a disparu . les beaux rêves nous avons chassé nous ont tués à la fin. comme la sirène , le rêve nous a invités dans et détruit notre innocence . il n'y a rien
Tu t'es juste trompé de rêve.
Thank god I don't live in 2000
Increíble, de una fascinación que angustia.
Jean Cocteau gracias por darnos tanta belleza . Leonor
Je ne suis pas un fan de Jean Cocteau, mais cette homme été visionnaire.
thanks for that upload
seriously, that really hit home for me
Merci beaucoup pour le partage, incroyable de voir Jean Cocteau nous parler pour ce 21 siècle qui malheureusement c'est empirée, guerres , perte de la biodiversité, perte de l'individu avec ses ôtes, la science a changé de camp , plus d'armes tout aussi meurtrière , guerre économique, famine , peut-être comme vous l'espériez à votre époque, que ce changement de paradigme se fera par des consciences plus éveillé à une dimension plus poétique et plus spirituel ( ce qui ne veut pas dire religieux) de se ré-approprié le sens du sacré que nous avait donné terre mère et de sa substance, ce changement si elle voit le jour , l'espèce humaine pourra peut-être se frayer de nouveaux sillons , merci beaucoup de nous avoir poster cette conversation de jean Cocteau
Sooooo good!
Wow. Cocteau nailed electromagnetic gravitics; it is said to create an envelope around the craft which the craft falls forward into as opposed to being propelled through a 'pushing' force. A poetic intermediary indeed.
Timely!
This is vision.
Największy mędrzec Zachodu, ciągle czekający swego odkrycia. Człowiek, który zmienił świat. I zmienia go dalej...
Bravo!!!
Unfortunately I didn't know who Jean Cocteau was until after 2000, did anyone watch this in 2000? Its creepy enough watching it in 2015... I can't help but think that Cocteau would have been disappointed in us.
Very disappointed especially with the millennials and beyond. A relative of mine in their late 20s doesn't hold a job, is lazy and stays in their room all day. Yet they have the expensive PC, phones, video games etc. More than I have and I work at 58. I guess my post here is more about my resentments rather than Cocteau but again, he would pale at the uninspired, lazy and unambitiousness of today's youth.
@@theresaakins2317 These lazy kids sitting in their room all day are the result of the secret wars he was talking about. Only difference is that now they kidnap people by feeding them with nonsense and burying them in a pleasure cloud.
But srsl the youth is advancing in good pace, science is unbelievable and art is a-okay.
@@theresaakins2317 you know this is literally 24 minutes of Cocteau criticising your generation?
Jean, it’s 2018 and we’re all robots 🤖 you definitely went avant-gard with your thoughts.
The development of errors that Cocteau observed has certainly developed since the time of his recording. We are governed by systems (usually computerized) that, from a human perspective, contain and continually develop a plethora of misnomers. It's also an intriguing statement when you consider the use of disinformation, "fake news" and the saturation and politicisation of information that defines our times. Fascinating to hear the great artist/writer/intellectual/film maker/surrealist, etc. speak.
Things haven’t changed as much as he expected they might.
THE EYES ARE THE GATEWAY TO THE SOUL
[19:48] Close-up view of Jean Cocteau's eyes: the pupils are twice the usual size.
In the context of his speech about his "dark mysterious inner me", it could reasonably be concluded that his hidden Shadow side, in the Jungian sense of deep analytical psychology, has taken over his psyche and is possessing him. He asks his audience to remember not his physical image, but rather see his Shadow side of his total persona, and remember him by his "poetic" works.
The following is an example of what Jean Cocteau said about science being off-track:
According to modern scientific medicine, the cause of dilated eyes (dilated pupils) is that in low light, your pupils open up, or dilate, to let in more light. When it’s bright, they get smaller, or constrict, to let in less light. Sometimes your pupils can dilate without any change in the light. The medical term for it is mydriasis. Medicines, injuries, and diseases can all cause this eye condition.
"I hope the Esperanto architecture hasn't taken all"...
So kind of you but I'm afraid it has.
This man doesn't blink.
Axisle
True!
Hes tring to tell us something you can tell he knows things other people dont it’s obvious that he knows too much and knows he is on a very short time limit. I wish i knew what hes tring to say
We made cars with mechanic legs instead of wheels, and we decided to continue with it
Although "decided" is a strong word
My old Greek friend says, “youth is wasted on the young”.
He hoped that by 2000, the world had become more humanized and I am sad because...
he would be terribly disappointed if he wishes for the future youth to become humanised
👀😇
Well, he would be disappointed to know that "progress" continues to be an idea developed in error. Frivolity still reigns, either as the shameless kind or that frivolity disguised popularly as social meaningfulness.
Cocteau is prescient
12:11
Alguien que pueda subtitularlo al español? =)
6:38
مرحبا ممكن سؤال بخصوص جان كوكتو
He thought there would be flying cars. But unsure if this transmission would exist.
He says history is lies, and believes more in mythology? And he's saying he's not responsible for his art?
"People think I tend to get tired because my hands do all of the work?"
Is it the translation that makes this weird.
It's not the translation, I think it's just an accurate depiction of how his mind works. He felt his hands were separate entities, and so when they worked, he might not get tired.
Lisette, the flying cars WERE INVENTED, banned by GVTs, and patent bought and shelved by big business.
he sounds pretty hammered
In this late life interview, Cocteau speaks in an obscure, parenthetic Morse code, e.g., "Even if the means of transmission no longer exist and my image can't be projected anymore, in any case, I hope to be before you as a ghost, even though I don't believe in death. I don't believe in death since it is merely one of the forms of life and I consider that St Augustine wasn't wrong when he said that a man who believed in antipodes was an utter fool..."
WTF? This isn't Orphic, poetic utterance. It's as if Cocteau were hallucinating on LSD...mais no! He's stone cold sober.
Apologies for not being in agreement with the comments' consensus opinion(s) that Cocteau is a genius or some kind of medium for the divine.
Its the language of poetry - the unconscious, which as Jung pointed out often is communicated in paradox. Cocteau was a genius - look at his films, for example. He may be broadcasting on a different frequency - one which your receiver isn't tuned to, but that is what poetry is for - to communicate with words that which can't be communicated with words - Yes, another paradox.
Do the buildings he speaks of still exist?
MsAlchemy100 which ones?
++++++
En l an 2000 on devait avoir des voitures volantes..
Und was sagt er so zusammengefasst?
didn't live here
why are this mans eyes dilated like that tho?
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Liberace is still great,jean cocteau,and kenneth anger and mamie van doren and neil armstrong. hooray!!!!and jean genet!hooray!!!!!
aprende anita
Bad translation.
min 6:10 "an Inca gateway" The "Gateway to the Sun" belongs to the ancient Tiwanaku civilization of the South American highlands (10 000BC). NOT the Incas. Just sayin'
Great mind, but this is quite pretentious with obvious roots from a bourgeois upbringing. Cannot make it to the 10:00 mark, sorry.
If you heard a pompous, pretentious, self-sufficient tone, you heard him wrong. That is quite the opposite. Perhaps the way he speaks? That's from a time when they had a good linguistic education. I don't regret much of that era, but the way these people were taught, even the most modest, was palpable even if the way they spoke. I teach, and the way kids talk today, the extent of their vocabulary, pales in comparison to kids from that era, as can be observed on many different videos - from different regions of France, in school with kids from different social backgrounds.
remembrance of things to come - souvenir des choses à venir -