Black Orpheus (Criterion, Art House Collection)
The film that introduced Bossa Nova to the world...
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Black Orpheus (2-DVD)
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 47 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 10, 2009
- 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:
89%
87%
It's the music, ecstatic, delirious, overwhelming, that is the star of the show: the bossa nova has never had a setting like this.
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Independent (UK)
...Brilliant color, a dynamic score and attractive performers...
USA Today
Rating: 3.5/4 --
From the opening shot, in which two Brazilian musicians literally burst through the frame, one can sense the explosiveness of Black Orpheus.
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TV Guide
It is an amazing creation.
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TIME Magazine
The fantasy is grounded on a boisterous soundtrack that propels its characters as well as its audience. So when the music stops as Orfeo begins to navigate the underworld, the effect is startling.
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The DC Line
This is an attractive boy-meets-girl story and no more, with everything full of charm, but slow, deathly slow and repetitive till the charm itself grows monotonous.
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The Spectator
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
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.
Product Description:
Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus took the art-house world by storm in 1959 with its stunning color photography of the Brazilian Carnival celebration and sultry bossa nova beats, winning both an Academy Award and the Palme d'or at Cannes. Transplanting the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice to the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Black Orpheus brings Greek mythology to vivid, frenetic life.
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