Orphée
Jean Cocteau / FR, 1950 / 95 min.
A poet descends into the underworld to find his deceased love, accompanied by a mysterious Princess-who-is-Death. Jean Cocteau’s hypnotic adaptation of the Orpheus myth is still regarded as an undisputed masterpiece of avant-garde cinema. Through the looking-glass, into dreamland.
Descending into the underworld to see your beloved again: it’s a classic tale. In the hands of poet, filmmaker and designer Jean Cocteau, the Orpheus story becomes a brilliant, surrealist parable about Death and Love.
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Details
Director
Jean Cocteau
Production year
1950
Country
FR
Original title
Orphée
Length
95 min.
Language
French
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Eye on Art
Eye on Art is a programme on the intersection between film and other arts. Eye on Art keeps up with current events, with presentations on contemporary artists and programmes that coincide with important exhibitions, manifestations and Eye activities.
Why in Eye
A hypnotic film that takes us through the looking-glass. An enchanting trip through the underworld in search of lost love, just like in the VR experience 'Eurydice, a descent into eternity' – also screening in Eye.
Anna Abrahams
programmeur Eye
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