Black Orpheus
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.
Running Time
108 mins
Year
1959
Rating
PG
Kanopy ID
1127172
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Comments (4)
Stunning, as is the French version "Orphee" done in the 1940's or 50's. Please acquire that also. Quite surrealistic. This however is not. But fine.
My momma forced me and my sister to watch this at her college when I was a kid. I fell in love with this film!!! Soo beautiful!
beautiful and inspiring in so many ways, it suggests that the unseen forces that exist before we are born and after we die (love and predacity) are eternally played out in the carnival of life passing through one generation to the next.
Very good movie and very cleverly done.
You get your samba and your Greek tragedy all in one go!