Cinema Classics: Black Orpheus

Sunday, March 8 at 4 PM

“This is an explosion of colour and vitality, a gigantic firework display of high spirits.”
— The Times (UK)

KPAC presents BLACK ORPHEUS as part of our Cinema Classics series, featuring films chosen by our Classic Films Committee. 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) 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.

Rated: PG | 1 hr 40 min | Tickets: $8 Adult / $5 Child / Film Pass