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Black Orpheus.

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Kanopy (Firm)
Format: Video
Language:French
Published: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2014.
Subjects:
Orpheus > (Greek mythological character) > Drama.
Eurydice > (Greek mythological character) > Drama.
Carnival > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > Drama.
Musical films.
Foreign films.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
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Summary: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.
Item Description:Title from title frames.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 107 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Format:Mode of access: World Wide Web.