Derek Winnert

Posts Tagged "Orpheus"

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Black Orpheus **** (1959, Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira) – Classic Movie Review 10,149

Director Marcel Camus’s 1959 film Black Orpheus [Orfeu Negro] is a modernised version of the classical Greek story of Orpheus and Eurydice set in modern Rio de Janeiro during the carnival, and filmed in Rio […]

Aug, 08

Orphée [Orpheus] ***** (1949, Jean Marais, François Périer, María Casares, Marie Déa) – Classic Movie Review 117

The French poet Jean Cocteau realises the full magic of the cinema in this 1949 masterpiece of the French avant garde, one of the most exquisite fantasies in the movies. Set in present-day Paris, Orphée […]

Aug, 01

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