In a film titled for this character, the director wears painted eyes in a staged funeral for himself, with men in horse costumes as pallbearers. At the start of a film, this character sees a brawl outside a cafe and a motorcycle hit-and-run before being led into a car that he thinks is going to a hospital. Marianne, Héloïse, and the maid Sophie read this man’s story and debate his motives in a scene from Portrait of a Lady on Fire. This character uses magic (*) gloves to pass through a mirror with the help of the chauffeur Heurtebise (“urt-a-BEEZ”) in a film starring the director’s lover Jean (“zhan”) Marais. A film titled for this character’s “Testament” concludes a series that begins with The Blood of a Poet. This character is reimagined as a Black trolley car driver in a Marcel Camus film set during Brazilian Carnival. For 10 points, a trilogy by Jean Cocteau centers on what character from Greek myth? ■END■
ANSWER: Orpheus [or Orpheé; accept Black Orpheus or Orfeu Negro]
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