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Cast
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La Bête (The Beast) /
The Prince /
Avenant
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Josette Day | ... | |
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Mila Parély | ... |
Félicie
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Nane Germon | ... |
Adélaïde
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Michel Auclair | ... |
Ludovic
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Raoul Marco | ... |
The Usurer
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Marcel André | ... | |
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Janice Felty | ... |
La Belle (1995 opera version)
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John Kuether | ... |
The Father /
The usurer (1995 opera version)
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Ana María Martinez | ... |
Félicie (1995 opera version)
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Hallie Neill | ... |
Adélaïde (1995 opera version)
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Gregory Purnhagen | ... |
La Bête /
Avenant /
Ardent /
The port official (1995 opera version)
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Zhang Zhou | ... |
Ludovic (1995 opera version)
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Adélaïde, Belle, Félicie and Ludovic are young adult siblings who once lived in grandeur until their father's merchant ships were lost at sea. The family is now near ruin, but Adélaïde and Félicie nonetheless still squander away the family money on themselves and keeping beautiful, whereas Belle slaves around the house, doting on her father. Ludovic detests his two spoiled sisters, but is protective of Belle, especially with his friend Avenant, a handsome scoundrel who wants to marry Belle. Crossing the forest one dark and stormy evening, the father gets lost and takes refuge in a fantastical castle. Upon leaving, he steals a blossom off a rose bush, which Belle requested. The castle's resident, an angry beast, sentences him to one of two options for the theft of the rose: his own death, or that of one of his daughters. As she feels she is the cause of her father's predicament (despite her sisters asking for far more lavish gifts), Belle sacrifices herself to the beast. Upon arriving ... Written by Huggo
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Country:
FranceLanguage:
FrenchRelease Date:
23 December 1947 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Beauty and the Beast See more »Box Office
Opening Weekend:
$3,708 (USA) (21 June 2002)Gross:
$138,158 (USA) (30 May 2003)Company Credits
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an opera by Philip Glass
(Not part of the original soundtrack, and not heard in the film's first two releases)
© 1995 Nonesuch Records for the US and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
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Did You Know?
Trivia
Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne lists this film as one of his favorites. See more »Goofs
As Beauty and the Beast walk in the garden, a comparatively modernly dressed boy in short pants is visible for a few seconds to the top right behind them. See more »Quotes
La Bête: Belle, you mustn't look into my eyes. You needn't fear. You will never see me, except each evening at 7:00, when you will dine, and I will come to the great hall. And never look into my eyes.See more »
Crazy Credits
The title and some of the opening credits are written with chalk on a blackboard, and then erased. See more »Soundtracks
"La belle et la bête"an opera by Philip Glass
(Not part of the original soundtrack, and not heard in the film's first two releases)
© 1995 Nonesuch Records for the US and WEA International Inc. for the world outside of the United States
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This might be my nominee for the most beautiful film ever made. It ranks as one of my absolute favorites.
So many images stick in your head afterwards: the billowing draperies; the beast's flashing eyes when he first appears; the way his ears prick up when a deer moves through the woods-- he's trying to talk to Belle but can't help but be distracted-- one of those perfect moments; the way his hands smoke from the fresh blood when he's returned from the hunt; the living eyes in the carved stone; the hall full of arm/candelabras, turning as Belle passes by; Josette Day (quite an image all by herself); the moment that I can't even describe when she sort of folds into the sheets and vanishes-- so on, so on.
This is, in short, what film can do, when it tries. This was made long before computer graphics and the accompanying revolution in special effects, but if any of our modern directors deployed their resources as imaginatively, or as sensitively, as Cocteau did in the 40s, film today might be worth the paper it's printed on. But they don't and it isn't. Ah well. Get this and watch it; all due praise to Disney, but this is the fairy tale to see.