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Heavy with symbolism and deliberately paced, Orpheus may not be for everyone -- but as an example of Jean Cocteau's eccentric genius, it's all but impossible not to recommend.
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It has the mystery and elasticity of a dream, and all the farcical comic horror of chancing across the intricate contents of the Blessed Virgin's lingerie collection. October 18, 2018 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
It has the mystery and elasticity of a dream, and all the farcical comic horror of chancing across the intricate contents of the Blessed Virgin's lingerie collection.
Peter Bradshaw
Jean Cocteau's scripting and directing give the film its proper key of unworldliness. March 26, 2009 | Full Review…
Jean Cocteau's scripting and directing give the film its proper key of unworldliness.
Variety Staff
Somnambulistic symbolism may be art for art's sake. Maybe not. This writer finds it slightly tiresome. March 25, 2006 | Full Review…
Somnambulistic symbolism may be art for art's sake. Maybe not. This writer finds it slightly tiresome.
Bosley Crowther
Its tight cross-lacing of paranoid dreaming and poetic realism grips like a bondage corset. February 11, 2006 | Full Review…
Its tight cross-lacing of paranoid dreaming and poetic realism grips like a bondage corset.
Raymond Durgnat
Full of haunting imagery plucked from the realm of fairy tales, Orphe is one of the great cinematic fantasies of the 20th century. March 16, 2004 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…
Full of haunting imagery plucked from the realm of fairy tales, Orphe is one of the great cinematic fantasies of the 20th century.
Jamie Russell
Cocteau's film technique is as eccentrically sui generis as ever -- his apparent mistakes are often among his most expressive moments. January 1, 2000 | Full Review…
Cocteau's film technique is as eccentrically sui generis as ever -- his apparent mistakes are often among his most expressive moments.
Dave Kehr
Orpheus is a film of mirrors and windows. For Cocteau the answer to the question of whether the cinema is a window through which we observe others or a mirror in which we observe ourselves is that it is both and neither... March 26, 2020 | Full Review…
Orpheus is a film of mirrors and windows. For Cocteau the answer to the question of whether the cinema is a window through which we observe others or a mirror in which we observe ourselves is that it is both and neither...
A.S. Hamrah
Cocteau saw film as a kind of poetry on celluloid, and never is that more clear than in Orpheus, which is the director's ultimate statement of his own artistic philosophies. August 5, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review…
Cocteau saw film as a kind of poetry on celluloid, and never is that more clear than in Orpheus, which is the director's ultimate statement of his own artistic philosophies.
Matthew Lucas
It's a familiar tale but one which feels fresh and fascinating. January 28, 2019 | Full Review…
It's a familiar tale but one which feels fresh and fascinating.
Rob Aldam
A poet, novelist, painter, sculptor and opium addict, Cocteau only had time to make a handful of films. Watch Orphe and ponder what might have been. December 7, 2012 | Full Review…
A poet, novelist, painter, sculptor and opium addict, Cocteau only had time to make a handful of films. Watch Orphe and ponder what might have been.
A magical enduring classic, to be seen again and again. December 7, 2012 | Full Review…
A magical enduring classic, to be seen again and again.
Philip French
Pretentious? Certainly, but full of the joy of filmmaking and there is a fairly coherent light through all the madness. It may illuminate man's obsessions and idol worship in a cautionary way, but Cocteau is also embracing those very ideas with his film. October 27, 2011 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Pretentious? Certainly, but full of the joy of filmmaking and there is a fairly coherent light through all the madness. It may illuminate man's obsessions and idol worship in a cautionary way, but Cocteau is also embracing those very ideas with his film.
Eric Melin
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