Orpheus (Orphee) (1950)

a poet LITERALLY falling in love with death? the frenchest thing that has ever happened

nora

It would make sense that everybody speaks french in hell

RupertKnoll

80/100 Cocteau understands dreams, and he also understands how certain effects can be transporting even if they're transparent. The journey to the underworld, for example, plainly has Heurtebise standing motionless before a rear-projected, moving Orpheus, but knowing that…

Mike D'Angelo

wow..... jean cocteau and jean marais truly were an iconic bisexual french power couple

Chris 🍉

“Where does our story take place... and when? A legend is entitled to be beyond time and place.”Jean Cocteau, I love you so much, only a genius like him could create a masterpiece that fuses mythological greatness with modernist introspection in such a magnificent way,…

noen

Dead Poets Society (1950)

Zach

The Orphic myth recast as one in which the poet's ability to charm death is reciprocal, wherein the artist is closest to death but also capable of transcending it. And really, some of Cocteau's shots will never not be bewildering to me, works of practical effects and clever…

Jake Cole

My first exposure to the myth of Orpheus was Terry Cavanagh's Don't Look Back, an unassuming little flash game I encountered in 2009 back when I'd sneak on Cool Math Games and Kongregate during middle school. It masked as a surprisingly-difficult and ultra-simplistic…

reibureibu

If death looked at me like this, I’d probably fall in love too.  I love movies that feel like they were made in another universe, and Orpheus is exactly that. The mirrors, the radio messages, the poetry, Death herself… everything feels mysterious. A poet walks through…

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