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Thursday, March 29, 2018












     Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête)
1946  NR  FANTASY  1h 33min
CAST— Jean Marais, Josette day, Marcel Andre
MUSIC— Georges Auric  DIRECTOR— Jean Cocteau  BASED ON— La Belle et la Bête (story), by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

     A film of stunning beauty and vision, Beauty and the Beast transports us to a world of magical fantasy that is all too rare in film. When a poverty-stricken man loses his way in the forest, he comes upon a castle occupied by a terrible man-beast. To escape alive, the man must promise to return or to send one of his three daughters to the beast within one week. His daughter Belle stands up to the challenge and goes to live out her father’s debt. Upon arrival, she finds a world unlike anything she had ever dreamed of, a world of magic and mystery, a world of wonder and fear. She soon comes to realize that the beast is not what he seems, not an animal at all, merely a tortured soul baring the burden of a bestial curse. Shot in stark black and white, aided with wonderfully original, inspired effects this film should not be missed. In French with English subtitles.
OUR RATING— *** ½
REMADE AS— Beauty and the Beast (1963/1991/2017)
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