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Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]

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Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]

Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]
A Film by Marcel Camus
2xDVD9 (VIDEO_TS) | NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | 01:47:50 | 7,17 Gb + 7,13 Gb
Audio: Portuguese AC3 1.0 @ 384 Kbps; English dub AC3 1.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English
Genre: Comedy, Drama | Won Oscar | Brazil, France, Italy

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. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

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In 1959, the French-Brazilian-Italian co-production Black Orpheus became an international sensation. Thanks to the pulsating rhythms of a score by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luis Bonfa, Marcel Camus' film played a pivotal role in popularizing bossa nova and samba music in America. The film also created for American audiences a collective vision of South America as a place of sunshine, sweat, vibrant color, and ever-present music and dance. As such, Black Orpheus remains a somewhat controversial European romanticization of Brazilian life—particularly the poverty of the favelas—while also standing tall as a dreamy Eastmancolor musical.

Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]

The awkwardly blunt title Black Orpheus sums up the movie, adapted by screenwriter Jacques Voit from Vinicius de Moraes's play Orfeu da Conceição, which in turn adapted the classical tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. Perhaps a better title would have been "Bacchanal," as the setting is Rio de Janeiro's Carnival—with its primal partying—and the plotline is Greco-Roman. Or "Dance of Death," in that Death stalks the heroine through streets alive with rhythm. Or "House of the Rising Sun," given the notion—embraced by two local boys—that the hero's song makes each new day possible.

Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]

Soccer pro Breno Mello plays Camus's modern-day Orpheus, Orfeu, a guitar-playing streetcar driver with an eye for the ladies and a sunny disposition reflected in his Carnival costume. His fiancée Mira (Lourdes de Oliveira) is determined to take him off the market, and after all, her costume identifies her as "Queen of the Day." Eurídice (dancer Marpessa Dawn) arrives from out of town, on the run from a mysterious man who's threatened her life; she relies on the kindness of her cousin Serafina (Lea Garcia), a.k.a. "Queen of the Night."

Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]

Orfeu and Eurídice cannot resist each other, and their stolen passion cannot evade Mira for long. Soon, all are swept up in the pageantry of Carnival (as kindly Hermes explains, "No one can resist the madness"), a fleeting respite from the hardscrabble existence of daily life in the favelas (but, oh, those views from the hilltop shanties!). Voit's modernization of the story is clever enough, but it's Camus' colorful stylization that gives the film surprising emotional oomph as the characters stumble into hellish circumstances—in a just-right touch, Death's skeletal black and white stands in stark contrast to the lively color. Death's terror nothwithstanding, can this much life—and love—ever truly be defeated?

Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]

The film's seductive blend of mythology and travelogue earned it the Palme d’Or at Cannes and Best Foreign Film at the Oscars. In hindsight, these choices were safe ones, but there's still sensual pleasure in the urban scenery, colorful visions, and music and dance, most of it defined by joyful abandon. Who could resist the picture's theme: "This is how our love will be/Me for you and you for me/I've had enough of sadness/I'll make you happy/I want to live in peace"?
Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]

Marcel Camus’ reinterpretation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice reaches epic dramatic heights and dark emotional depths in this winner of the 1959 Palme d’Or at Cannes and of the 1960 Oscar for Best Foreign Film. Attributed as the cultural milestone that introduced Bossa Nova music to the Western world (via Antonio Carlos Jobim and Luis Bonfa’s musical score) "Black Orpheus" sets its mythic tale against Rio do Janeiro’s Carnival where popular streetcar driver Orpheus (Breno Mello) falls madly in love with a lovely country girl named Eurydice (played exquisitely by Marpessa Dawn). A ‘snake bite’ from an electrical wire robs Orpheus of his dream lover and his is driven to explore the mysterious land of the dead to reunite with her. Infectious Samba and Bossa Nova rhythms permeate the beautifully filmed earthy Brazilian atmosphere of Carnival. "Black Orpheus" is an unforgettable classic of cinematic poetry, music, and myth.
Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]

Special Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation

Disc One:
- Film

Disc Two:
- Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus (3 mins) and actress Marpessa Dawn (5 mins)
- New video interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam (16 mins), jazz historian Gary Giddins and Brazilian author Ruy Castro (18 mins)
- Looking for “Black Orpheus,” a French documentary about Black Orpheus’s cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today (88 mins)
- Theatrical trailer (4:20)
Black Orpheus (1959) [The Criterion Collection #48 Reissue] [2010]


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