Rock star Orpheus writes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. Torn between her and his sound engineer, Calaïs, he discovers Eurydice has died of an overdose. Desperate, he descends into the Underworld to bargain with Hades.
Costume
Hades in full red leather — Marais devours every frame
Direction
Demy's final musical: melancholy wrapped in sequins
Score
Michel Legrand's last collaboration — synths weeping
Director
Jacques Demy
Francis Huster
Orpheus
Laurent Malet
Calaïs
Gérard Klein
Aristée
Jean Marais
Hadès / The Devil
Marie-France Pisier
Claude Perséphone
Hugues Quester
Caron
Éva Darlan
Dominique Daniel
Annick Alane
Lucienne
Marion Game
L'habilleuse
Jean Amos
Clément
Gilles Cohen
L'homme Bercy
Odile Cohen
L'hôtesse douanes
Patrick Fierry
L'officier des Douanes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Demy's only musical after 1980, and his last collaboration with both Legrand and Marais before his 1990 death.
The Calaïs/Orpheus romance was quietly revolutionary — Demy finally centering queer desire he'd only coded before.
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