“Black Orpheus” is a film that art-house audiences in 1959 loved madly. And who can blame them? A buoyant, searingly colorful retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth set in Rio de Janeiro, ...

Marcel Camus (21 April 1912 – 13 January 1982) was a French film director. He is best known for Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 ...

A rhythm beats nearly constantly throughout Black Orpheus, Marcel Camus’ 1959 arthouse hit. In this retelling of the Orpheus myth, the beat draws its characters along a cycle of life and death as it ...

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Black Orpheus (Dispatfilm-Gemma; Lopert) is perhaps the most impressive can of film so far cast up on U.S. shores by the New Wave (La Nouvelle Vague) of creation that has swept across the French movie ...

It isn’t often that a movie commences with a perfect summary of its own appeal. But that’s exactly what Black Orpheus does. Marcel Camus’ 1959 melodrama opens on a marble statue of its mythological ...

If you are seeking diversity in plot and setting, characters who don’t sound as though they have jumped out of a PowerPoint presentation, and a narrative style that escapes the fetters of the ...

In the late 1950s, a sonic surprise burst out of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A momentous movie, “Black Orpheus,” introduced the sensual, sexy sound of bossa nova to the world. Breezy, bewitching and ...

Born in Chappes, Ardennes, France, Camus was one of the best known directors of French Cinema. Camus was on his way to becoming an art teacher when World War II broke out and spent most of it in a ...