Directed by Jean-Marie Straub | 15 mins | 2011
Orpheus, returned from the underworld, explains to Bacchante that the gaze he cast upon wife Eurydice, condemning her to Hades, was an act of free will, not fate, in Straub’s agonized declamatory study of bereavement, based on a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. “Audacious and revelatory.”—The New Yorker