Sunday, July 20, 2014

Orphée...1950


Set in up to date Paris, the moving picture could be a variation of the classic Greek story of mythical being. The moving picture begins with mythical being (Marais), a famed writer, visiting the Café des Poètes. At a similar time, a blue blood (Casares) and a young drunk writer Cègeste (Edouard Dermithe) she supports arrives. Cègeste starts a brawl. once the police arrive and commit to take Cègeste into custody, he breaks free and flees solely to be run down by 2 bike riders. The blue blood has the police place Cègeste into her automotive so as to "transport him to the hospital." She additionally orders mythical being into the automotive so as to act as a witness. Once within the automotive, mythical being discovers Cègeste is dead which the blue blood isn't about to the hospital. Instead, they drive to a country house (the landscape through the automotive windows is conferred in negative) in the course of the 2 bike riders as abstract poetry plays on the radio. This takes the shape of on the face of it nonmeaningful messages, like those broadcast to the French Resistance from London throughout the Occupation.

At the ruined country house, the blue blood, Cègeste and therefore the 2 bike riders disappear into a mirror effort mythical being alone. He wakes alone during a desolate landscape and stumbles on the Princess' chauffeur, Heurtebise (Périer), WHO has been looking forward to mythical being to arrive. Heurtebise drives mythical being home wherever Orpheus' pregnant mate, Eurydice (Marie Déa), a police inspector and Eurydice's friend discuss Orpheus' mysterious disappearance. once he arrives home, mythical being refuses to clarify the small print of the previous night despite the question that waver the fate of the favored young writer Cègeste whose body can't be found. mythical being additionally invitations Heurtebise to measure in Orpheus' house and store the machine in Orpheus' garage till the blue blood ought to come. Over time Heurtebise falls enamored with Eurydice, mythical being become keen about paying attention to the abstract poetry that solely comes through the limousine's radio and it's disclosed that the blue blood is truly Death. once Eurydice is killed by Death's bike henchmen, Heurtebise proposes to guide mythical being into the Underworld so as to reclaim her. At this time, mythical being reveals he could have fallen enamored with Death WHO has visited him in his dreams. This ends up in Heurtebise asking mythical being that lady he can betray, Death or Eurydice? once mythical being arrives within the Underworld, he finds himself before a court that is interrogating all parties concerned within the death of Eurydice. The court proposes that Death has lawlessly claimed Eurydice and that they come Eurydice to life.
           
However, mythical being might not conceive her for the remainder of his life at the pain of losing her once more. mythical being agrees and returns home with Eurydice and Heurtebise WHO has been appointed by the court to help the couple in adapting to their new, restrictive, life along. In the last act, Eurydice visits the garage wherever mythical being has continued to concentrate to the limousine's radio in search of the unknown poetry. She sits within the backseat. once mythical being glances at her within the mirror, Eurydice disappears. At a similar time, the gang from the Café des Poètes arrives so as to extract retaliation from mythical being for what they suppose to be his half within the murder of the young writer Cègeste. mythical being confronts them, armed with a firearm given to him by Heurtebise, however is disarmed and shot. mythical being dies and finds himself within the underworld. This time, he declares his like to Death WHO has determined to herself die so as that he would possibly become AN "immortal writer." The court now sends mythical being and Eurydice back to the living world with no reminiscences of the previous events. At a similar time, Death and Heurtebise practice a ruined building towards their unknown, however frightful fate.

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