Jean Cocteau’s film Orphée

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Jean Cocteau’s film *Orphée* is a 1950 French cinematic reinterpretation of the Orpheus myth that blends surrealist imagery, poetic dialogue, and modern settings to explore themes of death, art, and the subconscious.

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instanceOf French film
film
basedOn Orpheus myth NERFINISHED
blackAndWhite true
countryOfOrigin France
director Jean Cocteau NERFINISHED
distributor DisCina NERFINISHED
filmFormat 35 mm
filmingLocation Paris NERFINISHED
followedBy Testament of Orpheus NERFINISHED
follows The Blood of a Poet NERFINISHED
genre drama
fantasy
surrealist cinema
hasInfluenced later cinematic adaptations of the Orpheus myth
surrealist and experimental filmmakers
hasTheme art
death
fame
love
poetry
the afterlife
the subconscious
mainCharacter Eurydice NERFINISHED
Heurtebise NERFINISHED
Orphée NERFINISHED
the Princess NERFINISHED
movement French avant-garde cinema NERFINISHED
French poetic cinema
notableFor mirror-as-portal visual effects
radio messages from the beyond
originalLanguage French
partOf Jean Cocteau’s Orphic Trilogy NERFINISHED
portrayedBy François Périer NERFINISHED
Jean Marais NERFINISHED
Marie Déa NERFINISHED
María Casares NERFINISHED
productionCompany Films de la Pléiade NERFINISHED
publicationDate 1950
runtimeMinutes 95
setting postwar Paris NERFINISHED
timePeriodDepicted contemporary 1950s France
usesElement modernized mythological motifs
poetic dialogue
surrealist imagery
writer Jean Cocteau NERFINISHED

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myth of Orpheus and Eurydice notableAdaptation Jean Cocteau’s film Orphée