Black Orpheus - The Criterion Collection (Blu‑ray)

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 an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.

France
1959
107 minutes
Color
1.33:1
Portuguese
Spine #48

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

- New, restored high-definition digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural 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
- Looking for "Black Orpheus," a French documentary about Black Orpheus’s cultural and musical roots and its resonance in Brazil today
- Theatrical trailer
- Optional English-dubbedsoundtrack
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by film critic Michael Atkinson

*Cover based on a theatrical poster