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Orfeu (Sub)
from New Yorker Video
starring Toni Garrido, Patrícia França, Murilo Benício, Zezé Motta, Milton Gonçalves
directed by Carlos Diegues

Features:

• Color
• Letterboxed
• Subtitled
• NTSC

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0

• Dazzling Cinematic Production with Minimal Story
  Director Carlos Diegues knows how to capture atmosphere with his camera and effects and when that atmosphere is the splendid garish gaudiness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro there is plenty to entertain the eye. 'Orfeu' as a story, supposedly a re-interpretation of the Orpheus and Eurydice myth updated to current times and set in the slums (favelas) of Rio, is just not there.
  The title character Orfeu (handsome and talented singer Toni Garrido) does sing and play his guitar, his playing ends the night... more info

• interesting, lively, sensual, colorful, sad
  You get a decent roller coaster of sights and emotions from the film. The best part of the movie for me is how the main character is forced between his mother's pagan world view, or his father's born again view. He is at the prime of his life and only wanting to have fun, but a death makes him confront his beliefs and start taking life seriously.

• Ouch! What a disappointment...
  Like a few other reviewers, I really wanted to like Orfeu. I am fascinated by Brazilian culture, especially the spectacle that is Carnaval. And, who could pass up listening to a soundtrack by the wonderful Caetano Veloso?
  Having seen City of God, however, I believe that director Carlos Viegues presents an overly-romanticized version of life in the favelas. I can take a little bit of fantasy, but come on! In present-day Brazil, wealthy urbanites take helicopters from their houses to the city in order to... more info

• How Can You Mend A Broken Remake?
  I really wanted to like this movie. Black Orpheus is one of my favorite foreign films. First of all I liked the brilliant colors and the cinematography was spectacular. The problem I had with the film is that the actress playing Euridice gave a lackluster performance. The actress that played Mira should have played Euridice. Secondy, if you're going to bring the story into the 21st century writing is important. The film while sticking with the basic story line left out some really important components such... more info

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