CiNEMERCATOR
Filmlover,
Merthe Voorhoeve,
Andreas van Riet,
Maaike Hasselaar
& Elisabeth van Vliet,
each are programming 1 precious film per month. That's 4 precious films per month!
CiNEMERCATOR
doors open 19:00
start 20:00
ticket 3€
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Marcel Camus
ORFEU NEGRO
(1959)
Winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Orfeu Negro relocates the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the hills of Rio de Janeiro during Carnival. French director Marcel Camus transforms the ancient tragedy into a dazzling collision of myth, music and modern city life, where celebration and mortality become inseparable.
The film is inseparable from the birth of bossa nova. Its soundtrack—featuring music by Antônio Carlos Jobim and Luiz Bonfá—became internationally influential, while the film itself introduced many audiences outside Brazil to the rhythms, landscapes and imagery of Rio. At the same time, its perspective has remained contested: admired for its visual exuberance and emotional force, but also criticised for presenting Brazil through an outsider's romantic gaze.
More than sixty years later, Orfeu Negro remains a singular work—at once intoxicating, controversial and unforgettable, suspended between myth and reality, joy and inevitability.
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