Mishkin Gallery – Screening + Talk: Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (1959)
2/23
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Mishkin Gallery
Baruch College
135 E 22nd Street
New York, NY 10010
Black Orpheus (1959, Brazil)
Set in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1950s, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus depicts Orpheus, a bus driver and amateur musician, Eurydice, a young woman who arrives in town to visit her cousin, and their neighbors as they prepare costumes and rehearse music for Carnival. Stunning colors and a Bossa Nova soundtrack punctuate the love story between the two protagonists in this modern retelling of the ancient Greek tragedy.
Baruch Professor Tshombe Miles will introduce the film.
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Still from Marcel Camus, “Black Orpheus,” 1959.
