Release Date: Feb 11, 2003 Region: 1 Runtime: 93 mins Studio: Criterion Audio:
FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1 FRENCH: Dolby Digital Mono
Video:
Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles: English Packaging: Keep Case Rating: NR Features:
Screening At the Majestic, A 1995 Documentary Featuring Interviews With Cast and Crew Interview With Cinematographer Henri Alekan Two Commentary Tracks: One Featuring Film Historian Arthur Knight, And the Second Featuring Writer/Cultural Historian Sir Christopher Frayling Rare Behind-the-Scenes And Publicity Stills Original Trailer Rilm Restoration Demonstration 1995 Restoration Trailer A Reprint of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont's original Fable, Translated From the French Notes By Francis Steegmuller From his Landmark Book, Cocteau: A Biography A Note About the Film By Cocteau
La Belle et La Bete 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, Amazon.com
Release Date: Feb 11, 2003
Region 2
Used Price: £9.99
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