“The cinema has replaced the church, and people seek truth at the movies instead of at the Mass,” says French Director Marcel Camus, whose sweeping ideas sometimes run a little too fast for the ...

It isn’t often that a movie commences with a perfect summary of its own appeal. But that’s exactly what Black Orpheus does. Marcel Camus’ 1959 melodrama opens on a marble statue of its mythological ...

Marcel Camus (21 April 1912 – 13 January 1982) was a French film director. He is best known for Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which won the Palme d'Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 ...