Orphée
By: SND Groupe M6 ; CNC A, Archives françaises du film ; André Paulvé présente ; un film écrit et réalisé par Jean Cocteau ; une production André Paulvé
Contributors: Marais, Jean, 1913-1998, actor; Périer, François, actor; Déa, Marie, actor; Casarès, Maria, actor; Hayer, Nicolas, 1898-1978, director of photography; Auric, Georges, 1899-1983, composer (expression); Janus Films; SND (Firm); Archives françaises du film; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 68; Criterion collection -- 68.
Published: 2011
Language: fre
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 95
ISBN-13: 9781604654646
Subjects: Drama; Surrealism in motion pictures; French Poets; Interviews; Criticism and interpretation; Art in motion pictures
Other titles: Orpheus; Villa Santa-Sospir.
Description: A 1950 update of the Orphic myth by Jean Cocteau that depicts a famous poet scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead through Cocteau's famous mirrored portal. Orpheus represents the legendary Cocteau at the height of his abilities for peerless visual poetry and dreamlike storytelling.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1950.

"New digital restoration."--Container.

The second film in a series sometimes referred to as Jean Cocteau's Orphic trilogy.

Special features: Jean Cocteau : autobiography of an unknown (1984), a feature-length documentary; Jean Cocteau and his tricks (2008), a video interview with assistant director Claude Pinoteau; 40 minutes with Jean Cocteau (1957), an interview with the director; In search of jazz (1956), an interview with Cocteau on the use of jazz in the film; La villa Santo-Sospir (1951), a 16 mm color film by Cocteau; gallery of images by French-film portrait photographer Roger Corbeau; raw newsreel footage from 1950 of the Saint-Cyr military academy ruins, a location used in the film; original theatrical trailer; audio commentary by French-film scholar James S. Williams.

Director of photography, Nicolas Hayer; editor, Jacqueline Sadoul; music, Georges Auric.

Jean Marais, François Périer, Marie Déa, Maria Casarès.

DVD format; NTSC, Region 1; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby Digital mono.

In French with optional subtitles in English.
Table of contents: title: Disc 1. Feature; title: disc 2. Special features.