Black Orpheus Blu-ray

'Black Orpheus' Director: Marcel Camus (1959) Criterion Collection Blu-ray | Restored | Portuguese w/ English subtitles

Marcel Camus 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.

Special features include:
- Archival interviews with director Marcel Camus and actress Marpessa Dawn
- 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
- Optional English-dubbed soundtrack
- Essay by film critic Michael Atkinson