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Miscellaneous French films
Vol. 5
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Director: François Truffaut
Rated: NR
Edition Details:
NTSC format
(VHS, for use in U.S. and Canada only);
Subtitles in English; Color,
HiFi Sound; Number of tapes: 1
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ASIN: 6302180163
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From Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide
Hitchcockian suspenser about Moreau tracking down and killing the
quintet of men who accidentally killed her husband on their wedding
day. Exciting, entertaining homage to The Master, right down to the
Bernard Herrmann score (although Truffaut omitted the twist ending
of the novel by William Irish, aka Cornell Woolrich).
Copyright ©
Leonard Maltin, 1998,
used by arrangement with Signet, a division of Penguin Putnam, Inc.
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Director: Jean Cocteau
Rated: NR
Edition Details:
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Subtitles in English; Black & White;
Number of tapes: 1
Runtime: 133 minutes
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Synopsis:
Jean Cocteau's spellbinding version of the French fairy tale,
Beauty and the Beast. Only a rose -- that was all Beauty
asked for when her father journeyed to the city. But her harmless
request has unexpected consequences when Beauty's father plucks
the flower from a garden belonging to an enchanted Beast. Now the
fearsome creature wants the father's life -- or the life of one
of his daughters. Despite her father's protests, Beauty determines
to go in his place. When she arrives at the Beast's palace, she
discovers, to her amazement, a blazing fire, silver platters heaped
with food, and the softest downy bed. And she learns that the Beast
is kind and will not harm her. Still, she reacts with horror when
he asks her to marry him. Beauty knows she can never do that...
can she?
The Home Vision Cinema VHS version is full-length, newly
remastered with new subtitles. The print used is from the
Janus film collection.
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Beauty and the Beast is one of the all-time great movie fantasies,
and one of the most gorgeous pictures ever made. It was the first feature
film by French director Jean Cocteau, a writer, poet, and painter with
ties to the surrealists. (In fact, his first film, The Blood of a Poet,
was delayed after the scandal caused by L'Age D'Or, made by his
fellow surrealists Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.) The haunting,
surreal visuals (candelabra made of human hands, for example) and a
sensitive performance by Jean Marais as the Beast imbue the film with
an indelible, mythical power.
-- Jim Emerson
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