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BLACK ORPHEUS [ORFEU NEGRO] France/Brazil, Marcel Camus, 1959 Cast: Director: Marcel Camus Breno Mello ... Orfeo Length: 105 minutes Marpessa Dawn ... Eurydice Country: France/Brasil Marcel Camus ... Ernesto Producer: Sacha Gordine Fausto Guerzoni ... Fausto Language: Portuguese Lourdes de Oliveira … Mira Color: Color Léa Garcia ... Serafina Script: Marcel Camus, Jacques Viot, Vinicius de Moraes Ademar Da Silva ... Death Photography: Jean Bourgoin Alexandro Constantino ... Hermes Editing: Andrée Feix Waldemar De Souza ... Chico Music by Luiz Bonfá, Antonio Carlos Jobim Jorge Dos Santos ... Benedito Aurino Cassiano ... Zeca Questions of Analysis: 1. What is this movie about? 2. How does the opening scene sets the enigma for the remaining of the movie. 3. What is the meaning of the title? 4. What does the audience need to know to better understand the film? 5. Whose story is it? Defend your answer. 6. Identify the basic conflict and provide a list of metaphors. 7. Whose perspective does the film use to deliver the story? 8. What is the film's and the directors's ideology? 9. How does the film portray the Brazilian spaces? 10. How does Black Orpheus present religion as “social construct”? 11. Explore the religious topics presented in the film as it transforms a classical Greek mythology story into a Brazilian favela carnival/urban story 12. How is syncretism presented in the film? 13. Interpret syncretism from within the Afro-Brazilian point of view (See Bastide's article). 14. What is the role of religion in the culture depicted in the film? 15. What is the director's purpose for making this film? 16. How does the film deal with the concepts of nationalism and identity? 17. What message does the final scene attempt to deliver to the audience?.

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