Black Orpheus
Strand Theatre
Saturday, June 30 at 7 PM
Winner of both the 1960 Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or in 1959, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpehus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpehus was a cultural event, kicking off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.
Read more about this classic film:
(Portugese with English subtitles)
See the trailer:
Advance tickets at Highway 61 Coffeehouse: $5
At the door: $7
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