Orpheus (Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray] Reviews

Jean Cocteau was a true Renaissance man. He was a painter, a poet, a playwright, a novelist, a producer, a stage and screen director, in other words, an all-encompassing artist, and his entire world seems to have revolved around art in all of its varied components and configurations. Though he made only a few films during his lifetime, Orpheus, his modernized take on the myth of “Orpheus and Eurydice,” is among his most surreal and hypnotic. It’s a poetic attempt to capture death’s netherworld in terms understandable to the living, and it’s surely a once-in-a-lifetime cinematic experience. Haunting, gorgeously conceived and mounted, Orpheus is the very definition of a true art film.

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