La Belle et la Bête (Beauty and the Beast)

	Duration: 07:38 minutes Upload Time: 2007-06-10 12:40:40 User: zuebee :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day
Description: "Once Upon a Time..." Thus begins Director Jean Cocteau's 1946 masterpiece of black and white cinematography, "La Belle et la Bête." Cocteau (1889-1963) was a writer, poet, and painter with ties to the surrealists. The entrancingly beautiful visual poetry of this film (for example, candelabra made of human hands and NO singing teacups, thank you very much), dreamlike imagery and painterly compositions have rarely been duplicated since. I used the musical composition of "Marwa Blues" by George Harrison to further enhance the dreamlike quality of the images. FYI: George won a posthumous Grammy in 2004 for Best Pop Instrumental Performance for this song (George died 29 Nov 2001 and this song was released in 2002). Please see this movie uncut if you want to experience one of the finest fantasy films of all time!
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warg29 ::: Favorites Very interesting. Thank you for sharing. This does indeed have some surrealist feel in it especially with Harrison's dream-like music. I do enjoy the beauty and the beast as a story, so I'm also fond of the Disney version. Yes, it's such a shame that Disney tends to focus so much more on the silly and the commercially viable than giving significance and beauty to the animation. They are capable of creating some fine imagery. By the way, have you seen any bits of the Destino? 07-10-16 07:34:17 __________________________________________________
zuebee ::: Favorites I have not been able to find "Destino" at all in my area. I would give anything to see the work of Dali and Disney together, even if it is only a few minutes long. Do you know what format this is available in and what the title is? THANKS! 07-10-16 10:12:11 __________________________________________________
ironhills ::: Favorites La Belle et La Bete wasn't his first. He'd been making movies since 1930. 07-10-14 18:43:29 __________________________________________________
zuebee ::: Favorites You are correct. Cocteau made his first film, Blood of a Poet, in 1929. La Belle et la Bete was his second film and was one of the first major French productions of the post-war era. I will rephrase my text intro to reflect this. 07-10-14 23:21:23 __________________________________________________
khiwifruit ::: Favorites Who can please tell me what this song is? Such melodic to apease my tired Soul... 07-09-25 17:01:02 __________________________________________________
zuebee ::: Favorites The music is "Marwa Blues" by George Harrison. You can find it on his album, "Brainwashed," released in 2002. He won a Grammy for this in 2004. It is the album's only instrumental. "Marwa Blues" is a 3-minute 41-second piece but I looped it so it plays twice in order to fit my clips. It's one of my favorite Harrison works! 07-09-25 22:03:17 __________________________________________________
khiwifruit ::: Favorites I love this song set to this wonderful clip of my all time favorite movie. Please tell me the song title, anyone? Thank you :D 07-09-25 05:45:59 __________________________________________________
caitlinette ::: Favorites Wow, this movie looks really trippy and interesting! 07-09-20 18:01:58 __________________________________________________
zuebee ::: Favorites I am always reminded of a Dali painting when I watch this movie! The director, Jean Cocteau, was greatly influenced by the surrealist artists. Hope you get to see this film sometime in its original glory!!! 07-09-20 23:31:54 __________________________________________________
FifiTheMouse ::: Favorites Salut, c'est le film de la belle et la bête avec Jean Marais! c'est super bien mixé. bravo. J'adore ce film. Jean Mais est irresistible, même en bête! 07-08-18 19:15:35 __________________________________________________