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Beauty and the Beast
Directed by
Jean Cocteau
Not Rated
1946
1h 36m
Drama
,
Fantasy
,
and more
7.9
96%
90%
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A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her.
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Cast of Beauty and the Beast
Jean Marais
La Bête / Le Prince / Avenant
Josette Day
Belle
Marcel André
Belle's Father
Mila Parély
Félicie
Nane Germon
Adélaïde
Michel Auclair
Ludovic
Raoul Marco
The Insurer
Jean Cocteau
The Voice of Magic (uncredited)
Noël Blin
Footman (uncredited)
Christian Marquand
Footman (uncredited)
Gilles Watteaux
Footman (uncredited)
Beauty and the Beast Ratings & Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
One of the most magical of all films.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Endures as an improbable dreamscape that marries the apex of cinema to a classic fable.
Dallas Morning News
Jane Sumner
A daring artist, working in a difficult time of shortages and old equipment, convened 'a little village of workmen' and packaged a dream for the ages.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's a magical passage to a more impassioned and bewitching era.
Slant Magazine
Max Cavitch
It's precisely the questions and challenges of visibility-of what's obvious and to whom and why-that the film so masterfully explores.
Wall Street Journal
Kristin M. Jones
"Beauty and the Beast" remains a profound exploration of the human and animal worlds, light and darkness, and love and art.
Village Voice
Calum Marsh
Beauty is fragile. Magic is rare. And it's precisely the blessing of the cinema that it affords us such opportunities to indulge in fantasy.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
A sublime, sumptuous film directed by Jean Cocteau with the help of Rene Clement.
Variety
Variety Staff
Unduly slow pace and repetitious use of trick sets hurts chances of this film.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
Studied or not for philosophy, this is a sensuously fascinating film, a fanciful poem in movement given full articulation on the screen.
Village Voice
Michael Miller
The film is all surface, and undermines its own don't-trust-a-pretty-face and anti-greed themes at every turn.
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The timeless fairy tale about a young woman who agrees to dwell with a mysterious monster, as interpreted in 1946 by one of cinema's most brilliant visual stylists and mythmakers.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Lovely.
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Jeff Vice
Has lost none of its power to amaze and enthrall. And this magical adaptation of the much-filmed Jean-Marie Leprince de Beaumont tale clearly inspired much of the imagery for the Disney version.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
Cocteau didn't just interpret a fairy tale with this black-and-white wonder, but re-created a fairy-tale world.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
It sets the benchmark in elegance for such fantasy films.
New Times
Jean Oppenheimer
So enchanting it takes your breath away, Jean Cocteau's 1946 live-action version of the famous fairy tale remains one of the most magical films ever made.
Antagony & Ecstasy
Tim Brayton
It's true that a bit of the film's impact has been diluted by its significant influence both within its genre and without; but the original is still a special thing, a beautiful hallucination.
DVDJournal.com
Mark Bourne
By conjuring up ... fairy-tale trappings, then aiming it all at adults, Beauty and the Beast reminds us that motion pictures can tap into our childlike fears and pleasures without becoming childish in the process.
Cinema Autopsy
Thomas Caldwell
This film is such a visual delight that I gave up worrying about ideological considerations and just embraced its beautiful and influential dreamlike imagery.
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