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Black Orpheus. The Greek legend, reset by Marcel Camus, a French director of The New Wave, comes to new life in the whirling bodies and pounding drums of Brazilian Negroes (TIME, Nov. 16).

Camus said there wasn’t one ... said his Provence childhood was so idyllic it was like a book by the writer Marcel Pagnol. Some had criminal records for domestic violence, driving offences ...