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Black Orpheus
Orfeu Negro
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Directed by Marcel Camus
Brazil/France/Italy, 1959
Color
107 Minutes
Portuguese with English subtitles
Show Times:
Sun., Nov. 8 1:00 PM
This frenetic Latin melodrama, set during Carnaval in Rio de Janeiro, is credited with bringing the bossa nova beat to North America. The plot was inspired by the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, a couple so in love that Orpheus convinced Hades, god of the underworld, to return Eurydice to the land of the living after her death. The only condition Hades placed on the deal was that Orpheus could not look at Eurydice on the way up from the underworld. Here, the myth is retold as Orfeo (Breno Mello), a streetcar conductor grappling with death in the streets of Rio, falls for Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn), a provincial girl newly arrived in the city. Black Orpheus won the Palme d´Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the award for best foreign film at both the Oscars and Golden Globes.
This film is part of the Spotlight on Brazilian Cinema film series.
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