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| Home | Saturday, December 3rd Our question and answer session on Sartre manuscripts (4:00-5:00 p.m.) will be followed by a screening of Orfeu Negro/Black Orpheus Free and open to the public!
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 This 1959 Cannes Film Festival Grand Prize winner (and Oscar's Best Foreign Film, and a Golden Globe winner) is based on the Orpheus-Eurydice legend but updated and played against the colorful background of Carnival in Brazil, featuring an all-Black cast. French director Marcel Camus created the movie from Vinícius de Moraes musical play Orfeu da Conceição. Long outlawed as a subversive expression of black slave culture, samba music was forbidden from the Rio Carnival by the Brazilian authorities until the 1930s. By the late 1950s it had been revitalised as bossa nova, the throbbing, jazzy music which thrillingly infects every moment of Marcel Camus's Oscar-winning masterpiece. Featuring a legendary soundtrack by Antonio Carlos Jobim and Louis Bonfa, this reinvention of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth situates its all-black cast in the slums of Rio, where the ancient story unfolds within a riveting mix of voodoo, rhythm, carnival and tragedy. The ravishing colour photography is shown at its best in this new print. |
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