Orphée (DVD)

Newest Review: ... intrigued and seduced by Death, who takes the form of a princess (Maria Casares), who has in turn fallen in love with him. ... more

... But when Death's henchmen kill Orpheus' wife Eurydice (Maria Dea), Orpheus descends into the underworld to save her. Yeah, I've those kind of weekends too. What everyone remembers about this movie is probably the stunning effects and images - Orpheus entering the underworld through a mirror (an effect achieved using glass and mercury, every bit as good as the CGI bits in 'The Matrix' which are an homage to this movie), the hell's angels zooming around the French countryside in black leather on m...more

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	Orphee [1950] [DVD] Release Date: 2004 - 08 - 30, Rating Parental Guidance, Last Update 23.12.2009 05:48	£ 20.00
	Balalaika Paperback, Editions Orphée Last Update 23.12.2009 05:48	£ 6.75
	Gluck - Orphée et Eurydice Last Update 23.12.2009 05:48	£ 15.77
	Orphee [DVD] [1950] Release Date: 2008 - 10 - 27, Rating Parental Guidance, Last Update 23.12.2009 05:48	£ 12.38	Free! within 1 to 3 weeks
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Orphée (DVD): look in the mirror (648 words)
by - written on 11/01/02 (Very useful, 107 readings)
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It may all have been pretentious twaddle, but Johnny Frenchman knows how to make his art movies. These days, when your average film director comes over all artistic, they tend to film lots of people sitting around being miserable, and then throw in a completely naked woman (or an erection). Back in France in 1949, this wasn't an option, so Jean Cocteau decided, oh hell, why don't I make a film about immortality, death, poetry, the eternal power of love and put lots of gorgeous French people in it. Seems reasonable. There are levels on which 'Orphee' seems ever so slightly daft, ever so slightly silly. Go into it with the wrong frame of ... Read the complete review

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