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Black Orpheus

Dir. Marcel Camus France 107 min PG

1959 Janus Films

In Portuguese with English subtitles

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Saturday, February 7 at Ruth Sokolof – Mary

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Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Black Orpheus brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, the film was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

Young lovers Orfeu and Eurydice run through the favelas of Rio during Carnival, on the lam from a hitman dressed like Death and Orfeu’s vengeful fiancée Mira and passing between moments of fantasy and stark reality.

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"It is an amazing creation." – TIME

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This film is edited by Andrée Feix.

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