Portraits of Orpheus: Celine Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Jean Cocteau’s Orphée
An Audio-Visual Essay
Echoes of Jean Cocteau's adaptation of the Greek Myth Orpheus reverberate in Celine Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
Donato Totaro has been the editor of the online film journal Offscreen since its inception in 1997. Totaro received his PhD in Film & Television from the University of Warwick (UK), is a part-time professor in Film Studies at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada) and a longstanding member of AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).
