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Orpheus

Movie
1950
1h 35m
NR
French
Romance, Fantasy, Drama
User Score: 
7.8
Critic Score: 
92
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A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Orpheus

NR
Movie
1950
1h 35m
French
Romance, Fantasy, Drama
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A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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7.8
IMDB
Orpheus (1950) on IMDb
CRITIC SCORE
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Cast

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Jean Marais
Franois Prier
Mara Casares
Marie Da
Eurydice
Henri Crmieux
Juliette Grco
Roger Blin
The Poet
Edouard Dermithe
Jacques Cégeste
Andr Carnge
Ren Worms
Raymond Faure
Journalist
Pierre Bertin
Commissioner
Jacques Varennes
Paul Amiot
Judge (uncredited)
Philippe Bordier
Young Man at Café des Poètes (unc...
Claude Borelli
Une bacchante (uncredited)
JeanLouis Brau
Young Man on the Terrace of the Flo...
Jean Cocteau
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Rene Cosima
Une bacchante (uncredited)
Jacques DoniolValcroze
Young Man at Café des Poètes (unc...
Ren Lacourt
Postman (uncredited)
Julien Maffre
Police Officer (uncredited)
Claude Mauriac
(uncredited)
JeanPierre Melville
Hotel Manager (uncredited)
JeanPierre Mocky
Band Leader (uncredited)
Directed By: Jean Cocteau
Written By: Jean Cocteau

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Maarten Delfgou says...
3 years ago
The original title of the film is Orphée.
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soonertbone says...
10 months ago
A poet becoming obsessed with the personification of Death in a retelling of Orpheus is the most French thing I've ever seen. Snark aside, I think Cocteau is a beautiful director--like Beauty and the Beast, this film is full of dazzling images that stick in my memory. The special effects, dreamy movement, use of mirrors--it all serves to create this hypnotic trance that serves the film perfectly. It's poetry in motion. Sometimes the poetry obscures narrative cohesion, but I can't be too mad about it. This movie is a mood, and I love it.
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CinemaSerf
4 weeks ago
Accomplished poet "Orphée" (Jean Marais) is sitting in a café with a friend one afternoon when a fracas breaks out with some local students that necessitates the intervention of the police and causes a tragedy to occur. A woman in a Rolls Royce turns up and asks her aides to put an injured man int More
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