Blu-ray Review: Les Visiteurs du Soir (Criterion Collection)
The most enduring and internationally known film by the French creative team of Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert is 1945’s Children of Paradise, filmed by and large during the last months of the German Occupation. But one of their biggest box office hits was 1942’s Les Visiteurs du Soir. A dark, yet optimistic romantic tale, […]
Blu-ray Review: Orpheus
Full of haunting, imagery, Orpheus is surrealist filmmaker’s Jean Cocteau’s bold attempt to merge film and poetry. Bored by his life of fame and notoriety as a leading Left Bank poet, Orphée (Jean Marais) is ready for new experiences. At the Poet’s Café, he walks among other writers without really becoming part of them. He […]