Black Orpheus (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
The film that introduced Bossa Nova to the world...
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Black Orpheus (2-DVD)
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 21, 2010
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Breno Mello & Marpessa Dawn | |
Featured: | Lea Garcia | |
Directed by | Marcel Camus | |
Edited by | Andree Feix | |
Screenwriting by | Jacques Viot & Venitius De Moraes | |
Composition by | Antonio Carlos Jobim & Luiz Bonfa | |
Produced by | Sacha Gordine | |
Director of Photography: | Jean Bourgoin |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1959 -
Best Foreign Language Film: Not Applicable
Cannes 1959 -
Palme d'Or: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
An almost irrationally infectious retelling of the Orpheus-Eurydice chestnut set during carnival and feverish with hip-swiveling hustle, exploding local color, and sleeve-worn heart.
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Village Voice
[Featuring] swirling color, the excitement of samba and the accessible joy of a fabled city, not to mention a charming Orpheus in the young Brazilian Breno Mello, and a dazzling Eurydice in the American-born dancer and actress Marpessa Dawn.
Wall Street Journal
...[A] vivid, romantic reworking of the classic myth of Orpheus and Eurydice....BLACK ORPHEUS holds up amazingly well, its rich color and incessant samba beat as intoxicating as ever...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3/5 --
For a film haunted by death, this 1959 reissue is a joyful and exuberant affair which unfolds in a swirl of colour and movement.
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Total Film
This sort of thing was considered high art not so long ago; now it seems forced and ponderously symbolic.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3/5 --
An inspired reinvention of the underworld.
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Guardian
It is an amazing creation.
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TIME Magazine
Product Description:
Camus' winner of the Palme d'Or winner at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival is a modern reinterpretation of the myth of Orpheus which simultaneously celebrates the beauty, music and people of Brazil. In this version of the ages-old tale, Orpheus is a streetcar conductor and star Carnival dancer who is betrothed to the determined Mira but is in love with Eurydice. As Mira and Death himself pursue the doomed Orpheus and his lover through the streets of Rio de Janeiro, Carnival literally brings the streets to life. Lush photography and the timeless and brilliant bossa nova sounds of Jobim give the film a distinct power and beauty.
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- Sales Rank: 57,865
- UPC: 715515059114
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