Film
Orphée
- Director
- Jean Cocteau
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 95 mins
Orpheus the poet falls for the Princess of Death, while his missus, Eurydice, cops off with Mrs Death’s chauffeur, who whisks her off to the Underworld. Naturally, Orpheus bounds through the looking glass intent on getting her back.
Jean Cocteau‘s retelling of this venerable yarn intertwines Greek legend and his own mythology to striking effect, with no shortage of magical imagery. This 2K restoration is taken from the original nitrate negative.
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