2023-08-14 23:00:00
Muhammad Abdul Rahman wrote Tuesday, August 15, 2023 02:00 AM Presentation Jesuit Cinema Club The French film “Orpheus” was shown yesterday at the Scientific and Cultural Renaissance Association “Jisuit of Cairo”. In a discussion following the screening of the film, writer and art critic Aya Tantawi, supervisor of the Jesuit Cinema Club, said that the artistic biography of Jean Cocteau, the director of the movie “Orpheus”, flows from it a great influence on myths, plastic arts and classical plays, which, according to his description, are suitable for every time and place.
She added that Cocteau did not reincarnate the myth of Orpheus as it is, but presented his vision of the myth that revolves around the lover’s struggle with the death of his beloved.
Aya Tantawy explained that Cocteau deciphered the symbols of the myth, presenting a cinematic story that reshapes the relationship of art with death, and that the death of the poet may not be a real death, but rather his death represents the death of art and poetry within him, and that this reading reshapes our relationship with myth and other myths that do not only present us epic stories, Rather, it puts us in front of human feelings suitable for all times, such as love, jealousy, and selfishness, stressing that the director employed the cinematic image to embody the legend, so he created the underworld, and employed the use of mirrors that were not a mirror of the self, but a window to the secret of death, the enemy of the great hero.
It is noteworthy that the films of the month of August at the Jesuit Cinema Club revolve around the idea of myths from which the cinema was inspired by its magical world to make films that revive the legend in a new world.
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