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Orpheus
Drama, Fantasy, Romance - 1950
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At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess insists on taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls-Royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes in the car back to the land of the living, only to become obsessed with the car radio. This film is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
Director:
,
Jean Cocteau
Cast:
,
Jean Marais
,
María Casares
,
François Périer
,
Roger Blin
,
Juliette Gréco
,
Marie Déa
,
Henri Crémieux
,
Edouard Dermithe

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
95 min
Release date:
29 Sep 1950
Country:
FR
Languages:
French
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
Nominated for 1 BAFTA Film Award2 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
Seeing Orpheus today is like glimpsing a cinematic realm that has passed completely from the scene.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Cocteau's film technique is as eccentrically sui generis as ever -- his apparent mistakes are often among his most expressive moments.
– Dave Kehr,
Chicago Reader,
1 Jan 2000
fresh:
Its tight cross-lacing of paranoid dreaming and poetic realism grips like a bondage corset.
– Raymond Durgnat,
Time Out,
11 Feb 2006
rotten:
Somnambulistic symbolism may be art for art's sake. Maybe not. This writer finds it slightly tiresome.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
25 Mar 2006
fresh:
Jean Cocteau's scripting and directing give the film its proper key of unworldliness.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
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