#jean marais

[weirdlookindog]

Sanjulian (b. 1940) - La Belle et la Bête

[anthonysperkins]

The Orphic Trilogy dir. Jean Cocteau: Testament of Orpheus (1960) Orpheus (1950) The Blood of a Poet (1930)

[mrmousetolliver]

Jean Marais (c.1938) photographed by Raymond Voinquel Jean Marais was a French actor, film director, theatre director, painter, sculptor, visual artist, writer and photographer. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 1996 for his contribution to French cinema.

[louisa-malchance]

Etude n-19, dessin

[filmswithoutfaces]

Beauty and the Beast (La Belle et la Bête) 1946 | Jean Cocteau

[citizenscreen]

Jean Marais and Josette Day for Jean Cocteau’s LA BELLE ET LA BETE (1946) (Beauty and the Beast)

[laurapetrie]

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946)

[normajeanebaker]

“I have a good heart, but I am a monster.” Beauty and the Beast // La belle et la bête (1946) dir. Jean Cocteau

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Beauty and the Beast - art by Jean-Denis Malcles (1946)

[konglindorm]

I just think it’s so funny that in Cocteau’s version of batb he cast his boyfriend as *both* of beauty’s love interests. The local guy she doesn’t like and the human version of the beast are the same actor. It’s like if the Disney movie had their whole big transformation sequence, and the Beast came out the other end just completely identical to Gaston. Like, how is beauty even supposed to cope with that? She’s just committed to spending her life with a guy who looks like a monster, after spending most of the movie refusing to marry him, and now he suddenly looks like the other guy she didn’t want to marry? This is such a ridiculous situation. 10/10 casting decision. Funniest possible way to resolve things. Love how Cocteau throws this at us and then immediately ends the movie, zero time for beauty to even process. Fantastic.

[maudlin-st]

this charming man (1983)

[weirdlookindog]

Jean Marais and Josette Day in La Belle et la Bête (1946)

[honeygleam]

donkey skin (1970) dir. jacques demy

[mrmousetolliver]

Jean Cocteau and Jean Marais (c.1940's) photographed by Cecil Beaton. Cocteau and Marais met in 1937 and were partners, both professionally and personally, until 1947. Marais was considered to be Cocteaus muse and starred in plays and movies written and/or directed by Cocteau. After they ended their romantic relationship, they remained life long friends.

[jiz-henry]

[filmreveries]

Beauty and the Beast (1946) dir. Jean Cocteau