Orpheus

The great Jean Cocteau gets his avant garde freak on with the old greek mythology and warps it up to 1950 France with some seriously fine results. There is very little I can add to the reams of books written on Cocteau's work so I'm not going to bother. It's great to see him direct his long time lover and friend Jean Marais in this project though I must say I found Marais' Flash Gordon hairdoo very very distracting. Visualy superb with amazing sound work and some beautiful music provided by Georges Auric.