Jean Cocteau's _Orpheus_
Anyone here put this film at or very near the top of their fave films list like I do? I long to see something that matches it for me.
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Anyone here put this film at or very near the top of their fave films list like I do? I long to see something that matches it for me.
"Among the misconceptions which have been written about Orphée, I still see Heurtebise described as an angel and the Princess as Death. In the film, there is no Death and no angel. There can be none. Heurtebise is a young Death serving in one of the numerous sub-orders of Death, and the Princess is no more Death than an air hostess is an angel. I never touch on dogmas. The region that I depict is a border on life, a no man's land where one hovers between life and death."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_(film)
María Casares plays the Princess.
She published her autobiography, Résidente privilégiée (Privileged Resident) in 1980, in which she described her 16-year affair with Albert Camus.[2][3][4][5][6] The couple never married,[7] but their extensive correspondence, first published in France in late 2017,[8] lasted from 1944 to almost the end of Camus' life.[9] She starred in a number of Albert Camus's plays and often threatened to end their stormy affair over his refusal to leave Francine Faure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Casares