Beauty and the Beast (Blu-ray, Criterion Collection)
The most beautiful love story ever told.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 19, 2011
- Originally Released: 1946
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Josette Day & Jean Marais | |
Performer: | Marcel André, Mila Parely, Michel Auclair & Nane Germon | |
Directed by | Jean Cocteau | |
Screenwriting by | Jean Cocteau | |
Story by | Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont | |
Produced by | André Paulvé | |
Director of Photography: | Henri Alekan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 5/5 --
The end result both saved and revitalised the studio's animation division: a sublime combination of masterful storytelling and magnificent musical interludes (overseen by legendary screen composer Alan Menken).
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Herald Sun (Australia)
It's got storytelling vigor and clarity, bright, eclectic animation, and a frisky musical wit.
New Yorker
Rating: 3.5/4 --
It's exceptionally difficult to make an audience care for animated characters unless they're mermaids or anthropomorphized animals or insects, yet the Disney animators, with a big assist from the vocal talents of a superb cast, have pulled it off.
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Seattle Times
...There's an undeniable thrill in having BEAST unspool as Glass' hypnotic music swirls around the room...
Hollywood Reporter
Rating: 4/4 --
The animation still pops. Each song lodges itself in your brain. The imagination jumps off the page. Most importantly, Belle and Beast's love story inspires swoons and tears.
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AwardsCircuit.com
...A work that stands as one of French cinema's most influential films...
Entertainment Weekly
Beauty and the Beast, an instant classic of Disney animation, offers more excitement, magic and hilarity than any of its live-action competitors released so far.
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Maclean's Magazine
Product Description:
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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