MOVIES ABROAD: Orpheus Distending

"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 projector. Camus (no kin to the late writer-philosopher) reached the upper crest of the French cinema's New Wave with his Black Orpheus, a rambling but intensely poetic movie he produced by hiring amateur actors and coaxing action out of them against wild festival backgrounds in Rio de Janeiro. The formula worked so well that last fall Camus returned to Brazil, hired two professional actors, more...

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