movie poster for ORPHEE

Flicks ID

1349

Cert

15

Running time

91 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

ORPHEE (1949)

JEAN COCTEAU

Plot

Cocteau re-works the Greek myth in contempory terms as Death, a beautiful woman, helps the poet Orpheus rescue his lover from hell. Imaginative, memorable, baffling and beautiful. One of the most poetic movies in the history of cinema.