“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.” –The Criterion Collection
BLACK ORPHEUS / ORFEU NEGRO
A film by Marcel Camus
(France/Brazil, 1959, 107 min. In Portuguese with English subtitles)
Now streaming on HBO Max, Vudu, iTunes, Amazon Prime
Watch the trailer:
