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A famous poet, scorned by the Left Bank youth, loves both his wife Eurydice and the mysterious Princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the Princess from the world of the living to the land of the deceased.

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Title	Orpheus (1950)
Runtime	1 hr. 35 min.
Director	Jean Cocteau
Country	France
Studio	Criterion Collection
Genres	Drama
Description	Jean Cocteau's 1940s update of the Orphic myth depicts Orpheus (Jean Marais), a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice (Marie Déa) and the mysterious Princess (Maria Casarès). Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the Princess from the world of the living to the land of the deceased through Cocteau's trademark "mirrored portal." As the myth unfolds, the director's visually poetic style pulls the audience into realms both real and imagined in this, the centerpiece to his Orphic Trilogy.

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16 days ago

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There will never be movies like that... Movies where the directors were experimenting.. always trying to find new ways to tell a story... Cocteau is like that... Those are not special effects, they are visual effects... They just roll the film backward for the effects... and had a camera with a dolly but don't show the actor's feet so it would look like they are floating...
Those movies are poetic, a kind of poetry that's lost in today's movies...even in independent movie...

23 days ago

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A beautiful retelling of the Orpheus myth set in France circa the 1950s. The vivid imagery and imaginative direction of Cocteau will not disappoint fans of his version of "Beauty And The Beast."

9 months ago

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If you think there's going to be some great message here about life and death, there's not. The movie is really just trying to be surreal almost for the heck of it. But it is very good at using the surreal device. I can't think of a single memorable line though.

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