Orpheus

Orpheus

  • Director: Jean Cocteau
  • Countries of origin: France
  • Language: French
  • Release date: November 29, 1950
  • Aspect ratio: 1.37 : 1
  • Also known as: Орфей
  • "Orphée" is a fantasy romance film directed by Jean Cocteau, starring Jean Marais , Maria Casares and Marie Deia, which was released in France on September 29, 1950.
    The film tells the fantasy road of love between the Parisian poet Orphée and his wife and the god of death.

    Details

    • Release date November 29, 1950
    • Filming locations Vallée de Chevreuse, Yvelines, France
    • Production companies Andre Paulve Film, Films du Palais Royal

    Movie reviews

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    • By Isadore 2022-01-20 08:01:29

      Orpheus

      Orpheus (see sculpture on the back cover) is translated as "Orpheus", or from Italian as "Orpheus". Trakia, a poet and singer in Greek mythology. The son of Oargos and Kaliop, one of the seven muses. Good at playing Kisala (a kind of poem). His playing can make the beast bow its head and the stone nod. When Jason set sail on the Argo wooden boat to search for the golden fleece, he went with him, and on the way home, with a beautiful and high singing voice, he overwhelmed the harpy-faced...

    • By Demarco 2022-01-20 08:01:29

      The mirror is the door of death

      This is a very unique world of images. The mirror once again shows its unique charm. Putting on rubber gloves, Ofi walked through a mirror that looked like mercury, and came to the underworld to stand trial. There is no surreal spectacle in this world, it is just a ruined wall destroyed by war. Those judges are obviously the most common officials in the world, in suits and leather shoes, with serious expressions. Is this the place where we accept the final judgment?

      The interesting...

    • By Tara 2022-01-20 08:01:29

      "Orpheus": An Ode to Death

      The work reveals people. So we want to know a director, just look at his work. Without knowing anything about Jean Cocteau, I watched "Orpheus" and thought he seemed to be a stern and humorous philosopher.
          The relationship between the poet Orpheus and the god of death is very intriguing. Life is to live to death, but like Christians, they can firmly believe that life is only short, the eve of eternal life, and there are probably not many who long for a heaven after death. We always...

    • By Felix 2022-01-20 08:01:29

      The Pearl of Wisdom

      Gao Kduo’s movies are very beautiful, not only because of his unconstrained imagination, the romance that breaks the barriers of dreams and reality, the utmost passion for beauty and love, but also the spirit of "fantasies and true love" throughout his life. The wisdom of the writer is vividly expressed in "Opheel" and "Opheel's Last Words" through many satirical dialogues.

      The opening scene of "Opheel" was a noisy scene of a group of poets in the Poet's Café, "I will appear on the...

    • By Hugh 2022-01-20 08:01:29

      The most passionate and the highest

      Huang Ailing said in "The Eyes of the Beast" that "Beauty and the Beast" is simply Gauk's version of "The Peony Pavilion." This reminds me that when I look at Gao Keduo's works with the eyes of watching Chinese operas, it seems that I can be more straightforward, and I can appreciate the affectionateness hidden under each frame of film. Is not it? "Opheel" also tells about the love that travels between yin and yang. In my opinion, the first half is "Love Detective" and the second half is "Song...

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    • By Marlon 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      In terms of plot structure, it is really much better than the blood of the poet. Make up a new story from a mythical story. Reaper looks too good-looking. The last thing Reaper and his assistants did for their lover was too good. Poems from the car radio, the uninformed masses, poets and...

    • By Adrianna 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      Friends recommend that Jean Cocteau is the type you will like. Comrade Poet, Greek Mythology Good Qin and Looking Back, Driver's Emissary, Mirror is the Gate of Death, Walking through the World of Yin and Yang with Gloves, Statue at the Door of Home, Deciphering Fragments of Sentences on the Radio, Mistaking the Car's Rearview Mirror with His Wife Vision, "This is the first time I almost feel the flow of time. It's terrifying to wait.", "You burn like ice." Approaching gods, even death, with...

    • By Aurore 2022-03-27 09:01:19

      In fact, we are all dead, but we are all aware of it. Is the difference between life and death love and desire? Perhaps there is no difference on this page, it just seems to be the mirror of Cocteau's...

    • By Esta 2022-03-26 09:01:12

      The tug of life on both sides of the mirror is wonderful. The wind can't penetrate the ecran wall in front of the messenger on Huangquan Road. The hawker who sells the mirror can walk around at will, but the pair of orphee and eurydice are like a mother and son disguised as a husband and wife. It makes me play / si vous revez acceptez le reve, cest le role de dormeur//Inverted shot - red room with two peaks/The poet's image adjective library is really rich//melville plays a hotel lobby...

    • By Katelyn 2022-03-26 09:01:12

      Regarding the adaptation of Greek mythology and the film of object symbolism, psychoanalysis can also be inserted, double feminine is too obvious ~ and the poet is a writer who does not write. The trials and the group attack on one person are all products of the post-war period. The impact of World War II on European films is far beyond the imagination of many...

    Evaluation action

    In "Orphée", the director projects his own story on the protagonist of the poet. This film full of metaphysical thinking focuses on propositions such as death, life, creation, etc. Jean Cocteau uses his best at dreamlike lens language to shape the two worlds inside and outside the mirror. The princess in the film represents death. This image is as famous as the death god in Bergman's "Seventh Seal" (Timeline Review)  .
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    Movie quotes

    • Le commissaire: Yours is a perfect marriage, but sometimes men lose their heads.

    • Eurydice: Orphée. you can't spend your life in a talking car.

    • Orphée: My life had begun to pass its peak. It was rotting, stinking of success and of death. The least of these phrases is much more than any of my poems. I'd given all that I've written for even one of those little phrases. I'm on the trail of the unknown.

      Eurydice: Orphée, little phrases won't feed our child.

      Orphée: There's a woman for you, Heurtebise. You discover a world and she speaks to you of baby clothes and bills.