Beauty and the Beast (1946)
- Original title
- La Belle et la Bête
- Directed by
- Jean Cocteau, René Clément
- Genre
- drama film, fantasy film, cinematic fairy tale
- Country
- France
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 675 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A merchant's daughter volunteers to live with a beast in exchange for her father's life. The beast falls in love with her and she gradually begins to care for him.
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What happens
Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bête – also the UK title) is a 1946 French surrealist romantic fantasy film directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. Starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais as the Beast, it is an adaptation of the 1756 story Beauty and the Beast, written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and published as part of a fairy tale anthology. The plot of Cocteau's film revolves around Belle's father, who is sentenced to death for picking a rose from the Beast's garden. Belle offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place. The Beast falls in love with her and proposes marriage on a nightly basis, which she initially refuses. Belle eventually becomes more drawn to the Beast, who tests her by letting her return home to her family, and telling her that if she does not return to him within a week, he will die of grief. Beauty and the Beast is now recognized as a classic of French cinema. It holds a 96% rating on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, based on 67 reviews. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Orpheus (1950)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.