Jean Cocteau's 1950 film 'Orphée' is my favourite movie of all time. My own ORFEAS is a re-telling of the same Ancient Myth, but otherwise it has absolutely nothing in common with Cocteau's masterpiece of surrealist, high-camp weirdness (except the 'masterpiece' bit, of course, ho ho...) However, the film certainly provided the impulse for me to explore the story for myself.