Description
THE CRITERION COLLECTION
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.
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
- Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
- New video 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
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film critic Michael Atkinson
Product details
| SKU | 5050629527834 |
| Alphabetical Title | Black Orpheus |
| Aspect Ratio | 1.33:1 |
| Blu-Ray Region | B |
| Brand / Publisher | Criterion Collection |
| Catalogue Number | CC1904BDUK |
| Director | Camus, Marcel |
| Format | Blu-ray |
| Language(s) | Portugese |
| Product contents | Single disc |
| Running time | 107 mins |
| Size | No size |
| Subtitles | English |
| Year | 1959 |
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