Best Foreign Film 1960

I fell in love with this movie: “Black Orpheus,” some years ago.

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Black Orpheus (Portuguese: Orfeu Negro) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval. The film was an international co-production between production companies in Brazil, France and Italy.

The film is particularly renowned for its soundtrack by two Brazilian composers: Antônio Carlos Jobim, whose song "A felicidade" opens the film; and Luiz Bonfá, whose "Manhã de Carnaval" and "Samba of Orpheus" have become bossa nova classics.

Black Orpheus won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival[1] as well as the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the 1960 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film (in those awards the film was credited as a French production; only in the 1961 BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film was Brazil credited together with France and Italy).

The Theme of Black Orpheus is universal Love and Death. When I was young, television would show these old classic movies. I rarely see them anymore. Thank the Goddess for You Tube!

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Great Music + Great Scenery = Classic Movie

This movie comes to the most wonderful conclusion because despite the deaths of star crossed lovers Orfeu and Eurydice their souls are born into the children.