Category: Black Orpheus

  • Black Orpheus (1959, Marcel Camus)

    Vibrant retelling of the Orpheus myth during Rio de Janeiro’s Carnaval. Great looking and sounding, with a really likable cast–director Camus and co-writer Jacques Viot don’t have the adapting the legend part cracked. They’ve got the Brazil during Rio part; maybe it’s the same problem in Vinicius de Moraes’s source play. Leads Breno Mello and…