Research and Publication Centre (RPC) in collaboration with Filmbar (on Instagram) announces the screening of the fourth film in its Season of World Cinema: Jean Cocteau's "Orpheus" (1950).
At the Cafe des Poetes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphee and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Celeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess insists on taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls Royce. Orphee soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes in the car back to the land of the living, only to become obsessed with the car radio. This film is the central part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of "The Blood of a Poet" (1930), "Orpheus" (1950) and "Testament of Orpheus" (1960).
Timing: Friday, January 20, 2023, 5:00 pm at Research and Publication Centre (RPC), 2nd floor, 65 Main Boulevard Gulberg, Lahore (next to Standard Chartered Bank, above Indesign showroom).
Rashed Rahman
Editor, Pakistan Monthly Review (PMR) (link: pakistanmonthlyreview.com)
Director, Research and Publication Centre (RPC) (on Facebook)
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