'Black Orpheus' Director: Marcel Camus (1959) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | Restored | Portuguese w/ English subtitles
Marcel Camus 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.
Special features include:
- Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
- Interviews with Brazilian cinema scholar Robert Stam, jazz historian Gary Giddins, and Brazilian author Ruy Castro
- Looking for "Black Orpheus", a French documentary about Black Orpheus’s cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- Essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
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