Orpheus Orphée
DVD - 2011
A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for peerless visual poetry and dreamlike storytelling.
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- Subjects
- Genres
- Feature films
Experimental films
Motion pictures, French
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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[New York, NY] :
Criterion Collection
c2011.
- Language
- French
- Corporate Authors
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- Edition
- Two-DVD special edition ; DVD edition ; full screen
- Item Description
- Title from webpage.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.
"New digital restoration."--Container.
Special features: Disc 1: audio commentary by French-film scholar James S. Williams. Disc 2: Jean Cocteau: autobiography of an unknown (1984), a feature-length documentary; Jean Cocteau and his tricks (2008), a video interview with assistant director Claude Pinoteau; 40 minutes with Jean Cocteau (1957), an interview with the director; In search of jazz (1956), an interview with Cocteau on the use of jazz in the film; La villa Santo-Sospir (1951), a 16 mm color film by Cocteau; gallery of images by French-film portrait photographer Roger Corbeau; raw newsreel footage from 1950 of the Saint-Cyr military academy ruins, a location used in the film; theatrical trailer.
The second film in a series sometimes referred to as Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy. - Physical Description
- 2 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, black and white w ; 4 3/4 in
- Format
- DVD, NTSC, Region 1; Dolby Digital mono.
- Production Credits
- Director of photography, Nicolas Heyer; editor, Jacqueline Sadoul; music, Georges Auric.
- ISBN
- 9786314335410
9781604654646
- Disc 1. Feature
- Disc 2. Special features.