Double Feature: BLACK ORPHEUS (ORFEU NEGRO), SANSHO THE BAILIFF (SANSHO DAYU January 24, 2013

Thursday, January 24 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: BLACK ORPHEUS (ORFEU NEGRO), 1959, Janus Films, 100 min. French director Marcel Camus based his film on the Brazilian play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, who in turn used the Greek myth of Eurydice and Orpheus as inspiration. Dropped into the Rio de Janeiro slums during the annual Carnaval festival, Orpheus (Brazilian soccer star Breno Mello) drives a trolley and is engaged to marry Mira (Lourdes de Oliveira), for whom the wedding cannot come soon enough. But Orpheus is a lover-of-women who can’t be tied down - until he meets Eurydice (Marpessa Dawn). Sparks fly immediately, but Eurydice is having troubles of her own, menaced by a mysterious man in a skeleton costume as well as the jealous Mira. With a justly famous bossa nova score by Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Carlos Jobim. In Portuguese with English subtitles.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkxGkL7o9xk
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (SANSHO DAYU), 1954, Janus Films, 120 min. Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi. In medieval Japan, a noble family is splintered when the father, the compassionate provincial governor, is exiled. The mother is sold into prostitution and the son and daughter shipped to the slave labor camp of oppressive Sansho the Bailiff (Eitaro Shindo). Kinuyo Tanaka, Kyoko Kagawa, Akitake Kono, Noriko Tachibana and Yoshiaki Hanayanagi all turn in splendid performances, perfectly embodying the slow grind of degradation and ultimately the transcendence of suffering as time passes. One of Mizoguchi’s most enduring classics. In Japanese with English subtitles.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=076MrMynyak

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