Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition)
by Jean Cocteau, Ren? Cl?ment
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Actor: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Michel Auclair, Mila Par?ly, Nane GermonDirector: Jean Cocteau, Ren? Cl?ment
Brand: MARAIS,JEAN
Cinematographer: Henri Alekan
Writer: Jean Cocteau
Editor: Claude Ib?ria
Producer: Andr? Paulv?
Writer: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 93 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
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Summary of Beauty and The Beast - Criterion Collection (Restored Edition)
The true love of a beautiful woman restores a beast to the handsome young prince he was, before a spell was cast on him.Genre: Foreign Film - French
Rating: UN
Release Date: 11-FEB-2003
Media Type: DVD
This is definitely not the Disney version. While it remains faithful to the plot of the classic fairy tale by Leprince de Beaumont, Jean Cocteau's 1946 French romantic fantasy is the product of a sophisticated, mature sensibility in its tones and textures and, above all, in its surprising emotional power. With sparkling black-and-white imagery that, for once, is actually dreamlike rather than cute or kitschy, and with a Beast (Jean Marais) who is almost as glamorous with his silky blonde facial hair as he is clean shaven, the movie casts a seductive spell. It might actually be a little too rich and unsettling for kids. Even the costumes and the draperies are entrancingly ornate. Viewers intoxicated by this enveloping vision should consider moving on to Cocteau's even more aggressively other-worldly 1949 masterpiece Orpheus, in which Marais plays the doomed poet of ancient Greek legend, updated to a Parisian "punk" milieu of motorcycles and black leather. --David Chute
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