Orpheus

1950 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama / Fantasy / Romance

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 97% · 33 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 89% · 2.5K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.9/10 10 13337 13.3K

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Plot summary

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.


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French 2.0
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1 hr 36 min
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1440*1072
French 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 36 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rdoyle29 10 / 10

A beautiful film

Jean Cocteau is a complete aesthetic package and I love him.

Cocteau seems to get an idea for a film based around some themes that spark ideas in him, and then includes a lot of images purely for aesthetic reasons. His films seem to belong to no real tradition. He's a tradition unto himself.

One of the things that really seems to be on his mind here is the middle aged slump into mediocrity. He was 60 years old when he made this film, so his Orpheus's fear that his artistic power has waned must have been a real concern. If you make a film this beautiful, you needn't worry.

I love that his film has poetry groupies who swarm poets for autographs. The suggestion that Orpheus may have plagiarized Cégeste's work causes poets to storm his house. What a world!

This film is all sleek black leather and beautiful lo-fi special effects.

Juliette Gréco and Jean-Pierre Melville show up.

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Reviewed by MartinHafer 9 / 10

a visual treat

It's a shame that Director Cocteau's works are relatively unknown in this country. Few of his films are available and I would LOVE to see more of his films. I have only a few of his films (including Beauty and the Beast, Blood of a Poet and a couple others) but was absolutely stunned by the cinematography and artistry. It's as if his films are less movies than Surrealistic works of art--meant to confuse and delight.

To describe the plot would be difficult other than to say it is a faithful modern retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and his trip to the Netherworld to retrieve his beloved. Just watch it and see for yourself.

PS--Since first writing this review, I have seen several more Cocteau films and am always in search of more. Unfortunately, Cocteau didn't direct or write that many. BLOOD OF A POET was pretty strange and was more like a short Avant Garde film you'd see in an Art House than a commercially viable film, whereas the other films I saw were like Orphée in that they had some odd imagery but still maintained a traditional style of storytelling.

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