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Film · 1946 · Romantic fantasy
Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bete)
Directed by Jean Cocteau
1946
France
★ 6.8 editorial score
Cocteau made a fairy tale that looks the way one feels: human arms hold the candelabra along the corridor, and the Beast's castle behaves like a dream that has not decided to end.
“Cocteau has taken the old story of the beautiful country girl who goes to live as a hostage for her impoverished father in the palace of a terrifying beast, there to be treated with such kindness that she falls in love with the unhappy brute, and has used it as a pattern for weaving a priceless fabric of subtle images.”
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