Orphée PG

Jean Cocteau’s haunting and visually stunning reimagining of the Orpheus myth marries classical legend with an equally mythologized version of the filmmaker’s own personal story. Jean Marais plays a famous poet caught between two worlds when, seeking inspiration for his work, he follows a mysterious woman through Cocteau’s famous mirrored portal into the land of the dead. Dreamlike, poetic, and endlessly inventive, Orphée rightly stands as Cocteau’s most widely celebrated work of cinema.