75TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (LA BELLE ET LA BETE) in 35MM
1946
Director: JEAN COCTEAU
JEAN MARAIS, JOSETTE DAY
ALL SEATS $12.00
35MM PRESENTATION
Forget the Disney version--Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast is the most magical and inspired version of this classic tale. When Belle's (Josette Day) destitute father (Marcel Andre) picks a rose for his daughter from the Beast's (Jean Marais) garden, he is sentenced to death. Belle offers to trade herself for the old man, and the Beast agrees, and their romance was the stuff of legend. Evoking the paintings of Vermeer, Cocteau's Beast is a sumptuous tale of love, passion, and violence.
35mm print courtesy Janus Films.
