Black Orpheus (1959)

Browning Cinema New at the Browning Directed by Marcel Camus With Breno Mello,Marpessa Dawn, Lourdes de Oliveira Rated PG, 100 minutes, DCP In Portuguese with English subtitles Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was an international cultural event, and it kicked off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning. Sponsored by the Meg and John P. Brogan Endowment for Classic Cinema.