Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast Soundtrack

This is definitely not the Disney version. While it remains faithful to the plot of the classic fairy tale by Leprince de Beaumont, Jean Cocteau's 1946 French romantic fantasy is the product of a sophisticated, mature sensibility in its tones and textures and, above all, in its surprising emotional power. With sparkling black-and-white imagery that, for once, is actually dreamlike rather than cute or kitschy, and with a Beast (Jean Marais) who is almost as glamorous with his silky blonde facial hair as he is clean shaven, the movie casts a seductive spell. It might actually be a little too rich and unsettling for kids. Even the costumes and the draperies are entrancingly ornate. Viewers intoxicated by this enveloping vision should consider moving on to Cocteau's even more aggressively other-worldly 1949 masterpiece Orpheus, in which Marais plays the doomed poet of ancient Greek legend, updated to a Parisian "punk" milieu of motorcycles and black leather. --David Chute

Director: Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise
Stars: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Richard White, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers
Production: Buena Vista
  Won 2 Oscars. Another 24 wins & 25 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
95
Rotten Tomatoes:
94%
G (General Audience)
Year:
1991
84
$47,611,331
Website
5,160 Views
#SongDuration
1Belle5:06
2Little Town2:50
3Gaston3:36
4Be Our Guest3:43
5Coming Together5:10
6Something There2:18
7Human Again4:52
8Tonight's the Night1:00
9Beauty and the Beast2:42
10The Mob Song3:26
11Transformation4:13
12Prologue2:27
13Belle (reprise)1:05
14Gaston (reprise)2:04
15West Wing3:42

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