Orpheus

A poetic, mythologically-inflected meditation on desire, loss, and artistic obsession set in postwar Paris, where a poet's pursuit of inspiration becomes a descent into death and the underworld.

A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.