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Plot:
Written and directed by Cocteau, this allegorical film retells the legend of Orpheus in a contemporary setting. Orphee (Marais) is a successful Parisian poet, whom--despite popular acclaim--feels isol...( read more 
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MCT:June 27, 2008Orpheus(Orphe'e)" is a masterpiece. Jean Cocteau is french poet laureete of cinema, when Luis Bunuel was working on confrontational surrealist assaults like Un Chien Adalou, Cocteau was developing his own surreal film making language, one just as arresting and startling, but with a poetic and mythic cohesiveness where Bunuel would place an absurdity. Visually, I really cant say enough, it was just stunning even by modern standards, I had to rewind several parts, just to see them again before I could go on. The marriage between poetry, comedy, surrealism is blurred her into a distinct hybrid myth and fairy tale. A poet discovers Death or at least an agent of Death has fallen in love with him and wants to take him to other side, he resists of course, and eventually his wife is taken, leading to a journey into the world of mirrors (for in mirrors one can see Death's hand working). A great film that resonates on numerous levels and glows with intriguing concepts, mesmerising trick photography, and a mythic scope funneled through a modern landscape. Brilliant. Recommend
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MCT:January 15, 2008
The special effects are what really standout about this really interesting film.
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MCT:January 2, 2008
Cocteau continues his fascination with fairy tales, but only this time bringing the story into the modern world. As usual there are brilliantly strange ideas at play, and he makes the best of the minimal effects available to create his world of the physical and fantasy believable.
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MCT:December 9, 2007
Wonderful, a spectacle of beauty and one of the most brilliant and sublime pieces of cinematic art, a flowing surrealist experience of words and images. Amazing film technique employed too.
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MCT:November 24, 2007
French 'Beat' poetry collides with Greek myth in what I consider the greatest 'non English language' film ever. Orpheus gets his inspiration from a particular radio station heard only in his car. To save his wife, he must walk through mirrors to the 'other side' and then deal with a bureaucracy there too. Surrealist poet / painter / playwright Jean Cocteau's masterpiece.
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