“But it really is not the two lovers that are the focus of interest in this film it is the music, the movement, the storm of color that go into the two-day festival,” Bosley Crowther wrote in The New York Times about this Oscar winner for best foreign-language film. ![]() ![]() ![]() The French director Marcel Camus transplants the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to a favela in Rio de Janeiro as a young couple (Breno Mello and Marpessa Dawn) falls rapturously in love at the height of Carnival madness. And wake up before dawn, if you dare, for an all-day marathon of “The Walking Dead.” What’s StreamingīLACK ORPHEUS (1959) on Amazon, Fandor and iTunes. “Cinderella and Four Knights” puts a South Korean spin on the fairy tale. Supplement your Olympics viewing with “Black Orpheus,” Marcel Camus’s intoxicating adaptation of the Greek myth, set during Carnival in Rio.
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