Word: orpheus
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...Black Orpheus does not sound to the bottom of the deep well of the past. But reaching almost effortlessly back to Hellenic time, it suffuses the carnival in Rio de Janeiro with a timeless mystery...
...Greeks knew this: Orpheus, the peerless and beautiful singer, won the charming Eurydice. But Aristaeus, ancient kin of Pan, whose very name meant the good, pursued her one day, and she was killed in the flight. Overcome by grief, Orpheus sought her and persuaded Hades to release her from the underworld. Orpheus started back to earth with her, but violated the condition that he should not look at her until he left the underworld--and so he lost her. Back on earth, Orpheus was torn apart by women jealous of his love for Eurydice...
Fine Arts: The best twin bill in Boston at the moment. BLACK ORPHEUS is Marcel Camus' re-telling of the Orpheus-Eurydice myth in modern Rio. Don't go if you're tired; it's excellent but exhausting. Color is spectacular...
...olden times, the Brattle had a recording of the 1812 Overture, which was at least close to the proper emotions for a Bogey festival, but this fall, the horns will sound the spaces between the theatre's showings of Hiroshima Mon Amour, Black Orpheus, and even Can-Can. Variety is required: for the first of these three, Norman Dello Joio's Air Power Suite would no doubt suffice; a few bar's of Gluck might enliven the second; and Offenbach is the only answer for the third. Certainly other suggestions are possible, but continuing the present entr' acte offerings...
...Ruth and, improbably, is able to make his way into the death pen, where she is kept in a harem for the camp guards. He tries to smuggle her out. Reality obtrudes, and the film ends as they are climbing over the fence. It is a variant of the Orpheus legend, and it is not the fault of the lovers, who are acting in their first film and are touching and believable, that the retelling is not wholly a success. But it is too early for tender legends set in such a background. One does not see Orpheus and Eurydice...