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Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro [ɔɾˈfew ˈneɣɾu]) is a 1959 romantic tragedy film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus and starring Marpessa Dawn and Breno Mello.
Black Orpheus: Directed by Marcel Camus. With Breno Mello, Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira, Léa Garcia. A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro.
Mar 4, 2014 · Directed by French one-hit wonder Marcel Camus, Black Orpheus was, according to NYU film scholar Robert Stam, as authentic as a “French person making a film about American baseball.” Camus...
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
A retelling of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth, set during the time of the Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro. In the heady atmosphere of Rio's carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Eurydice, a country girl, has run away from home to avoid a man who arrived at her her looking for her.
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
Black Orpheus was one of the most successful international films of its time. It won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival and the Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film of 1959.
