Eczema, migraines, and exhaustion were just some of the beastly ailments endured by poet/artist and first-time feature director Jean Cocteau while conjuring Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et Le ...

La Belle et la Bête requires 12 new kinds of lip quiver and 50 shades of melancholy from Jean Marais (Beast) and Josette Day (Beauty), who duly deliver all that the face may be. The measured pace ...

The curtain rises on one of San Francisco's most exciting arts events of the year next week as Opera Parallèle presents the world premiere of its innovative take on "La Belle et ... Jean Cocteau, who ...

This is acknowledged finally when Beauty (Josette Day) tells the Beast (Jean Marais) "I like being afraid... with you." As played by Marais, the Beast comes across as a dapper, renaissance version ...

If later versions have tended to cater either to mature or young audiences, then La Belle Et La Bête belongs somewhere between ... A cursed prince, the Beast (Jean Marais), seeks his true love to ...

Kept in servitude by her snooty sisters, Belle (Josette Day) adores her impoverished father – so much so that when papa is cursed to death by a Beast (Jean Marais ... à la Disney, but creepily ...

She seems increasingly fascinated by her host’s hairy form and accepts his final transformation only because he looks like an old suitor (Jean Marais). As the hero tells Belle: “You’re a ...

The curtain rises on one of San Francisco's most exciting arts events of the year next week as Opera Parallèle presents the world premiere of its innovative take on "La Belle et ... Jean Cocteau, who ...

Philip Glass' "La Belle et la Bête" ("Beauty and the Beast") retains its power to amaze and enchant an audience. This genre-spanning adaptation of the classic Jean Cocteau film, which on Thursday ...

Despite the Oscar-nominated animated version from Disney, painter-poet-playwright-novelist Jean Cocteau s first ... Cocteau-favourite Marais, in turn, achieves a sort of tormented magnificence ...

You really have to wonder why any filmmaker would want to remake La Belle et la Bête. Jean Cocteau’s 1946 version is considered to be one of the classics of 20th ...