“Beauty is fragile. Magic is rare. And it’s precisely the blessing of the cinema that it affords us such opportunities to indulge in fantasy. ”
A beautiful young woman takes her father's place as the prisoner of a mysterious beast, who wishes to marry her...
Josette Day and Jean Marais star, respectively, as Belle and The Beast in Cocteau's dream-like adaptation of the 1757 story Beauty and the Beast (written by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont and originally published as part of a fairy tale anthology.)
