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By Anthony V (664) on 08 May 2012

Beautiful and dreamlike. A wonderfully scripted retelling of the Orpheus myth set in France circa the 1950s…

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By Eric R (1,431) on 03 Apr 2012

This is a magical film that is loaded with some really impressive imagery throughout…

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By Thomas W (1,104) on 18 Feb 2012

Aussi prÃ¨s que cinÃ (C)ma obtient Ã la poÃ (C)sie pure…

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By Cody C (666) on 16 Feb 2012

A delightfully convoluted film that serves as kind of a precursor to 'Eternal Sunshine', 'Defending Your Life', 'Dogma' and other films that…

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By Ojas V (88) on 27 Dec 2011

Although the plot isn't original and it's not the first nor the last film to set the orpheus myth in a modern setting it is a great visual…

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By Daniel K (1,478) on 15 Dec 2011

4: No one has made, makes, or will make films like Cocteau. He is a unique visionary. Every one of his pictures is unmistakably his own…

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By Jason D (1,490) on 15 Oct 2011

One of the greatest classic genre films of all times, from one of the old masters of filmmaking! Every fan of the genre needs to see it,…

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By Chris B (2,902) on 08 Oct 2011

Another poetic and beautifully lensed film from Jean Cocteau on a subject he is very fond of both professionally and personally…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 11 Sep 2011

A paragon of magical realism that transports the ancient Greek myth into the then-modern realm of postwar France…

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By Jack G (1,167) on 30 Aug 2011

Cocteau uses his astonishing cinematic abilities to merge magical elements and catchy technical camera tricks to confirm himself as a poet,…

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By Kevin N (818) on 12 Jul 2011

A film that is full of paradoxes- which are the precise things that make it both a success and a failure…

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By Ami I (21) on 23 May 2011

Set in contemporary Paris, the movie is a variation of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus…

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By Sausages M (143) on 24 Apr 2011

Absolutely beautiful and beguiling film…

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By Adrian B (1,364) on 08 Apr 2011

Before the The French New Wave of exciting films, Jean Cocteau's released this visual gem of poetry and death…

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By Marcus M (342) on 28 Mar 2011

The use of simple special effects (reverse, negative film, mirror images) is put to great use to make a quite a wonderful, romantic magical…

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By Nooshin P (20) on 20 Jan 2011

An amazing mysterious cinematic adaptation of myths and literature. The applied techniques was quite impressive…

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By Ian Berriman (39) for SFX Magazine (298) on 10 Jan 2011

If you're the kind of amateur existentialist who admires the ring of a sentence like look a lifetime in a mirror and you will see Death at…

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By Christopher S (2,154) on 29 Dec 2010

Jean Cocteau explored the famous Greek myth of Orpheus three times in his career: Blood Of a Poet (Le Sang d'Un Poete) (1930), Orpheus (OrphÃ…

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By Grant W (306) on 05 Nov 2010

Perhaps fittingly, I kept falling asleep and waking back up (I think) as I rewatched Orpheus after a many-year break…

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By Anne F (623) on 31 Aug 2010

Do yourself a favour and netflix the trilogy, the first movie ( my favourite) is a silent from the late 20's then the next one is 1950 and…

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