Disney’s live adaptation of its animated musical Beauty and the Beast may be a box-office success, but its artistry pales when compared with a truly enchanting cinematic fairytale – Jean Cocteau’s 1946 realisation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s La Belle et la Bête.
Instead of the brutish, ill-mannered bordering on violent Beast of Disney, we have a dignified and courteous gentleman, who has the misfortune to have been cursed by spirits…
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