Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)

Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)

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Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus)

Ademar Da Silva, Adhemar Feirrera Da Silva, Alexandre Constanino, Alexandro Constantino, Aurino Cassiano, Breno Mello, Fausto Guerzoni, Jorge Dos Santos, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia, Marcel Camus, Maria Alice, Marpessa Dawn, Waldetar De Souza

Taken from the mythic legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, the story is set against the backdrop of Rio's Carnival, where the two ill-fated lovers meet.

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  • July 18, 2009
    Gorgeous, touching, funny, beautiful and an absolute delight to watch. Marcel Camus' imaginative retelling of this Greek myth will leave you smiling, crying and dancing in your seat.
  • March 24, 2009
    Set in Carnaval season of Brazil so everything is overwhelming and flamboyant. The party atmosphere is set alongside
    alongside a modern interpretation of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice which has a subtle progression.

    Very good camera work and shots for its time. For t...( read more)he most part the movie is all smiles, dancing, romancing, and drama between the sexes which gets gets to be tiring and annoying in certain cases. But it incorporates the legend heavily at the end with a great climax. Overall a solid and innovative film.
  • December 17, 2008
    The Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice transplanted to Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. The French director directed a mostly Brazilian cast. Like O Brother, Where Art Thou?, music plays a big role in the telling of this story. In this case, it is the bossa nova beats of lots of dr...( read more)ums, some lyrical singing and guitar playing, and energetic dancing, which helps tell the story. Eurydice is visiting her cousin near the city because she is trying to escape death, this creeping guy in a skeleton costume. Orpheus has just become engaged to a girl who is flirty and a real looker, except his soul mate is Eurydice. The two meet by chance a couple times and quickly fall in love, death eventually catches Eurydice, and Orpheus has to symbolically go to the underworld to find her. There's a wise man sort of character who's a friend of Orpheus and a couple boys who want to be like Orpheus and assist with the romantic relationship. An at times celebratory, romantic, proud, jealous, suspenseful, always rhythmic movie.
  • December 12, 2006
    A really wild retelling of Orpheus with fantastic imagery and music. A really fun movie.
  • May 19, 2008
    A famous Brazilian movie from the acclaimed director Marcel Camus. The film won the foreign language Oscar in 1959 and is considered a landmark for Latin American cinema. The film is loosely based on the Orpheus myth, but is set in modern Rio. The first most striking thing abo...( read more)ut the film is simply how well Camus uses Rio as a character of the film. All the color and energy of Carnival is on display here, the movie simply would not be the same if it were in Black and White. Also interesting is a certain racial role reversal on display, here all of the black characters are strong and interesting, while the white characters are jolly and slightly buffoonish shopkeepers and servants, which may have been a deliberate answer to how African Americans were depicted in Hollywood films. That said, the story here isn?t wildly strong, especially when divorced from the original myth, and I also think it could have done with a little more cutting, but for the most part it?s quite interesting.
  • July 23, 2009
    1950's Orpheus set in Rio during carnival time. Lots of drama, happy music, exuberant dancing and people skipping off set; great fun to watch. A Sunday afternoon film.
  • June 24, 2009
    Words can't do justice...
  • June 9, 2009
    The greatest tale of romantic mythology transformed
  • April 17, 2009
    Director Marcel Camus does a great job of utilizing his tools as a visual director in this film, soaking up the colors and energy of the film's setting. As far as atmosphere goes, it's very effective... however, I felt like the film overemphasized the intensity of its aesthetics ...( read more)and detracted from the poignancy of the story as a result. Entertaining, but frustratingly repetitive at times. It's a beloved movie, but I didn't quite grasp what all the rage is about.
  • March 2, 2009
    joya de joyas cinematograficas de mano de Marcel Camus, creo q puedo verla siempre sin aburrirme, hermosa adaptacion de la fabula griega de la tragedia de Orfeo, increible su cinematografia, colorizacion, acentuacion de cada personaje. belleza!

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