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La Bella e la Bestia

La Bella e la Bestia

(La Belle et la Bête)

1946, regia di Jean Cocteau (e René Clément, non accreditato)

Scheda: Nazione: Francia - Produzione: Scalera, Paul Delvé - Distribuzione: Mondadori Video, Lopert Pictures Corporation, Cowboy Pictures, Criterion Collection, DisCina, Large Door Video - Soggetto (dalla fiaba dei Fratelli Grimm e di Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont): Jean Cocteau - Sceneggiatura: Jean Cocteau - Fotografia: Henri Alekan - Montaggio: Claude Ibéria - Scenografia: Christian Bérard, Lucien Carré - Costumi: Christian Bérard, Antonio Castillo, Marcel Escoffier - Musiche: Georges Auric - Formato: B.N. - Durata: 96'.

Cast: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel André, Mila Parély, Nane Germon, Michel Auclair, Raoul Marco, Noël Blin, Christian Marquand, Gilles Watteaux, Jean Cocteau (voce).

Trama e commenti: cinematografo.it - Dizionario Farinotti - kataweb.it: «...Per salvare il padre la Bella si concede alla Bestia e il suo amore trasforma il mostro in un bel principe. Cineballetto fantastico di forte incanto visivo grazie al contributo di eccellenti collaboratori tra cui spicca lo scenografo Christian Bérard. Ma è anche una poetica riflessione sui temi dell'amore e della morte».

Plot Summary, Synopsis, Review: IMDb - entertainment.msn.com - tvguide.com - foreignfilms.com - allscifi.com - rottentomatoes.com: «Visionary filmmaker and poet Jean Cocteau responded to the terrors and creative constraints of occupied France with this elaborately realized take on the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. Suggested by his longtime collaborator and muse, French actor Jean Marais, the cinematic version of the fable first penned by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont became Cocteau's most celebrated film. Cocteau renders the story of a gentlehearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl in the style of the luminous paintings of Dutch master Vermeer. From the quaint and humorous scenes of Beauty's happy home to the ominous surreal spectacle of the Beast's enchanted estate, Cocteau transforms the simple tale of tragic love into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty. Marais is chilling as the lonely and tormented beast, projecting a wounded love for the glacial yet endearing Beauty (Josette Day), whose simple request for a rose from her father brings tragedy crashing down on her whole family. Cocteau expands upon the cinematic inventiveness first seen in his masterpiece Blood of a Poet with mirrors made of water, living statues, and candelabras fashioned from living arms, transforming a children's fable into a complex and radiant cinematic classic».

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