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DVD/Blu-ray #48: “Orfeu Negro / Black Orpheus” [BR / F / I 1959, Marcel Camus]
1 Disc
$39.95
1.33:1
Portuguese

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 a cultural event, kicking off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

* New, restored high-definition digital transfer
* Uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
* Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
* 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
* À la recherche d’“Orfeu negro,” a feature-length documentary about Black Orpheus’s cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
* Theatrical trailer
* PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Michael Atkinson


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