by Phil Wheat
Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) is an adaptation of the ancient Greek myth updated to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was a cultural event, kicking off the bossa nova craze that set hi-fis across America spinning.
Black Orpheus is available to buy now from Amazon.
To win the Criterion release of Black Orpheus and a copy of the soundtrack, just answer the following question:
Black Orpheus is a retelling of which myth? Is it:
a) Persephone and Hades
b) Odysseus and Penelope
c) Orpheus and Eurydice
Email your answer to NerdlyComps@gmail.com, making sure to include your name and address. You can also leave your answer on our Facebook page, just make sure to like us first or your entry will be invalid.
Competition closes February 13th 2017.
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