#la Marais

[wolfephoto]

Gained Perspective by John Wolfe Via Flickr: Rue De Rivoli - Paris

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Jean Marais and Josette Day - Beauty and the Beast (1946)

[weirdlookindog]

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

[cinemaastimegoesby]

La Belle et la Bête (1946). dir. Jean Cocteau

[louisa-malchance]

Etude n-19, dessin

[of-fear-and-love]

La Belle et la Bête / Beauty and the Beast (1946)

[vertigoartgore]

Absolute Swamp Thing by Alan Moore Vol. 1 HC cover by artist Stephen Bissette (2019).

[filmswithoutfaces]

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

[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.

[normajeanebaker]

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

[creepynostalgy]

Jean Cocteau on set of La Belle Et La Bête aka Beauty And The Beast (1946)

[jiz-henry]

[atomic-chronoscaph]

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

[weirdlookindog]

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

[moon-kissed-films]

Stills from Jean Cocteau's film La Belle et la Bête "Beauty and the Beast" (1946).

[siochembio]

Belle and the magic mirror in La belle et la bête (1946, Jean Cocteau)