Synopsis
“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.” – Janus Films
