{"id":83110,"date":"2022-04-18T11:55:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T18:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=83110"},"modified":"2022-04-18T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T18:55:39","slug":"black-orpheus-1959","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=83110","title":{"rendered":"Black Orpheus (1959)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;True love? Is there such a thing?&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Poster-205x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-83111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Poster-205x300.png 205w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Poster-88x128.png 88w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Poster-185x270.png 185w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Poster.png 573w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nA guitar-playing cable-car conductor (Bren Mello) engaged to a pushy flirt (Lourdes de Oliveira) falls in love with a naive young woman (Marpessa Dawn) who has fled to Rio after being chased by a figure clad as Death (Adhemar Ferreira da Silva).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Carnivals and Circuses<\/li>\n<li>Love Triangle<\/li>\n<li>Musicals<\/li>\n<li>South and Central American Films<\/li>\n<li>Star-Crossed Lovers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nAs Peary writes, this &#8220;popular Brazilian film by Marcel Camus&#8221; &#8212; which was the &#8220;Academy Award Winner for Best Foreign Film&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;updates [the] myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to modern Rio,&#8221; set during &#8220;carnival time&#8221; when &#8220;the city is festive and romantic.&#8221; He points out this is &#8220;one of the first films with black characters that was popular with American white audiences:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Lovers.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Lovers.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83122\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Lovers.png 960w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Lovers-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Lovers-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Lovers-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Lovers-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and that &#8220;females tend to like it better than males, perhaps because of [the] extensive dancing and music (indeed, the film is like an epic dance).&#8221; He notes it&#8217;s &#8220;an extremely colorful film, with emphasis on local customs and costumes&#8221; as well as &#8220;splendid photography by Jean Bourgoin [that] captures [the] glorious setting.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Dawn.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Dawn.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Dawn.png 960w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Dawn-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Dawn-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Dawn-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Dawn-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Landscape.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Landscape.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Landscape.png 960w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Landscape-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Landscape-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Landscape-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Landscape-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What Peary&#8217;s review curiously neglects to mention is the justifiable controversy over how, as described in <a href=\"https:\/\/moviediva.com\/reviewpages\/mdblackorpheus\/\">Movie Diva&#8217;s review<\/a>, &#8220;Poverty was romanticized, with the squalid <em>favelas<\/em> (shanty towns) shown as picturesque neighborhoods:&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Boys.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Boys.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83118\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Boys.png 960w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Boys-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Boys-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Boys-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Boys-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; &#8220;blessed with great views and colorful d\u00e9cor, filled with charming, carefree, sexually joyful people.&#8221; Indeed, this film &#8212; made through the gaze of a white (French) male director &#8212; is notable for opening up the world&#8217;s eyes and ears to the joys of Brazilian music and dance, but at the cost of authenticity. As such, it&#8217;s a decidedly mixed bag &#8212; but it remains worth a one-time look by film fanatics simply for its visual and aural beauty, and for its historical relevance. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jean Bourgoin&#8217;s cinematography<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Bench.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Bench.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83129\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Bench.png 960w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Bench-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Bench-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Bench-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Bench-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Stairs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Stairs.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83113\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Stairs.png 960w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Stairs-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Stairs-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Stairs-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Stairs-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Colorful sets and costumes<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Veil.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Veil.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83116\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Veil.png 960w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Veil-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Veil-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Veil-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Veil-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Death.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Death.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-83137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Death.png 960w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Death-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Death-128x96.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Death-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Black-Orpheus-Death-360x270.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>An incredible score by Luiz Bonf\u00e1 and Antonio Carlos Jobim<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nYes, for its historical relevance. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Categories<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Historically Relevant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> (<span style=\"color:red;font-weight:bold;\">Listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?page_id=1458\"><em>1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die<\/em><\/a><\/span>) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0053146\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvdtalk.com\/dvdsavant\/s2836orph.html\">DVD Savant Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/moviediva.com\/reviewpages\/mdblackorpheus\/\">Movie Diva Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvguide.com\/movies\/black-orpheus\/review\/2000346383\/\">TV Guide Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.qnetwork.com\/review\/2436\">Q Network Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tcm.com\/tcmdb\/title\/68912\/black-orpheus#articles-reviews?articleId=021579\">TCM Article<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;True love? 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