Monday 29 June 2009

Black Orpheus


All the way from Brazil, Marcel Camus' 1959 film that retells the classic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the vivid setting of 50s Rio De Janeiro during the famous Carnival season. The film won the Paslme D'Or at Cannes and Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. It is also famous for it's soundtrack of bossa nova and samba by Antonio Carlos Jobim.
Watch it on the youtube playlist below

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DCAD02AB764BC676

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