TWO BRAZILIAN MOVIES YOU SHOULD NOT PASS UP.
BLACK ORPHEUS AND PIXOTE.
These two forgotten movies when they premiered made an impact. They still do. One of the fascinating things about films, they are always there. This thought leads us to the following question, how many movies or films are made world wide each year? According to IMDB, since 1900 there’s been an average of 2,577 films produced each year around the world. If you were to see every film each year, that would requiere you to see 7 films a day during 365 days a year and taking into account an average of one hour and a half for every film, you would need about 10 hours a day to see them. It could be done if you did nothing else and your eyesight can withstand it. Having said all this, we see only a very tiny fraction of all movies having been produced. The options keep growing as social media keeps expanding forcing us to be more selective in our choices. This is one of the reasons I bring you these two films, in helping you make these choices.
Black Orpheus, Portuguese: Orfeu Negro, is a 1959 romantic tragedy film directed by French filmmaker Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is itself an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, set in the modern context of a favela in Rio de Janeiro during Carnaval.
The film is particularly noted 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 de Orfeu” have become classics of bossa nova.
Lengthy passages of filming took place in the Morro da Babilônia, a favela in the Leme neighbourhood of Rio de Janeiro. (Black Orpheus — Wikipedia)
In the heady atmosphere of Rio’s carnival, two people meet and fall in love. Eurydice, a country girl, has run away from home to avoid a man who arrived at her her looking for her. She is convinced that he was going to kill her. She arrives in Rio to stay with her cousin Serafina. Orfeo works as a tram conductor and is engaged to Mira — as far as Mira is concerned anyways. As Eurydice and Orpheus get to know one another they fall deeply in love. Mira is mad with jealousy and when Eurydice disappears, Orfeo sets out to find her. — garykmcd
See complete film, click below, English subtitles…
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What ever you may think of the film, the music sets the film to greatness.
Next week I will bring the film
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