Marcel Camus: Marcel Camus. Director: Black Orpheus. The work of Marcel Camus is characterized by a lyricism which, although central to his fine films of the 1950s and 60s - Fugitive in Saigon (1957), Black Orpheus (1959) and Love in the Night (1968) - later deteriorated into superficial sentimentality. Camus was a professor of painting and sculpture before breaking into film as an assistant to Alexandre Astruc, Georges Rouquier and Jacques Becker,...
Known For: Black Orpheus (Director), Os Bandeirantes (Director), Bahia (Director), L'oiseau de paradis (Director)