Picture 1 of 1

Orfeu (DVD)

4.52 product ratings

sgwebooks (117772)

99.5% positive feedback

Price:

$75.00

Free shipping

Estimated delivery Thu, May 8 - Mon, May 12

Returns:

No returns, but backed by eBay Money back guarantee.

Condition:

Brand New

Title: Orfeu. Type: dvd / DVD.

About this product

Product Information

ORFEU, from Brazilian director Carlos Diegues, is a new interpretation of the Orpheus myth about a musician who abandons his lover to follow the flow of the Rio de Janeiro Carnival. The film is an adaptation of the play by Vinicius de Moraes. With a wonderfully melodic musical score by reknowned Brazilian musician Caetano Veloso, the sounds of the bassa nova express Brazil's combined lonliness and festiveness, consistent with the story of Orfeu and Euridice.Orfeu (Toni Garrido), is a charismatic samba composer and performer living in the Carioca Hill district of Rio de Janeiro. His best friend, Lucinho (Murilo Benicio) is a tough street hustler, mixed up with drugs and a bad crowd. Euridice (Patricia Franca), is sultry and beautiful, as an out-of-town visitor who falls in love with Orfeu. But the film is not all carnival mystique. With a contemporary bent, focusing on the slums of Rio where rappers and drug pushers cohabitate, ORFEU gives a serious and sometimes disturbing look at the racial prejudices and gang violence that exists in those slums. Yet, the seductive, creative, beautiful atmosphere that Diegues makes of this area of Rio is undeniably real, and the reason that ORFEU succeeds.

Product Identifiers

UPC0717119775247

eBay Product ID (ePID)52041036

Product Key Features

ActorToni Garrido

RatingNR

Movie/TV TitleOrfeu

DirectorCarlos Diegues

FormatDVD

GenreMusical & Performing Arts

Sub-GenreMusical

Additional Product Features

Region CodeRegion 1

Number of Discs1

Country/Region of ManufactureBrazil

Leading RoleToni Garrido

Film CountryBrazil

All listings for this product

item 1 Orfeu (DVD) scratches but plays through acceptable M1

$18.00

Free shipping

item 2 Orfeu - DVD By Patrcia Frana,Toni Garrido - VERY GOOD

item 4 New Yorker Video DVD 'Orfeu' Musical Extravaganza, Crime, Tragedy Sealed New OOP

$84.44

Free shipping

Ratings and Reviews

Learn more

4.5

2 product ratings

1 users rated this 5 out of 5 stars
1 users rated this 4 out of 5 stars
0 users rated this 3 out of 5 stars
0 users rated this 2 out of 5 stars
0 users rated this 1 out of 5 stars

Good value

Entertaining

Engaging characters

Most relevant reviews

by us-oluba
Mar 18, 2022
It's not trying to be 'Black Orpheus', it is its own story.
The packaging was thorough and it arrived sooner than expected. Sadly 2 or 3 of the songs weren't given subtitles but even when you don't know what they're saying the songs are still lovely. Some plot lines don't feel fully resolved but you get so wrapped up in the overall story you find you don't really care. One part of the myth was oddly missing but the rest of the adaptation is still faithful to the original myth, with little references all over the place. Both this movie and the 1960 movie 'Black Orpheus' are adaptations of a play that I haven't read yet since I don't speak Portuguese and can't find it in English, a play that itself is a retelling of a myth from Ancient Greece. I would recommend both movies to anyone as I would any good adaptation of a myth or an old story. The singer beloved by everyone, mortal and immortal alike, clothed in the sun, and the young nymph with lovely eyes and a lovely name will meet again, will loose each other again, and will find each other again, in one place or another, in one time or another, as they always did.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: New