Beauty and The Beast (The Criterion Collection)

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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
Beauty and the Beast is one of the all-time great movie fantasies, and one of the most gorgeous pictures ever made. It was the first feature film by French director Jean Cocteau, a writer, poet, and painter with ties to the surrealists. (In fact, his first film, The Blood of a Poet, was delayed after the scandal caused by L'Age D'Or, made by his fellow surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.) The haunting, surreal visuals (candelabra made of human hands, for example) and a sensitive performance by Jean Marais as the Beast imbue the film with an indelible, mythical power. --Jim Emerson