Tag: Jean Cocteau

#158: Beauty and the Beast

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bhgxt2yxlyo7x4gplihezi28h0z#158 – Beauty and the Beast, (La belle et la bête), 1946, Jean Cocteau
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The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn’t return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.

#544: Orpheus

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ttxnps3vwbwkv5di9xeboeynr8l#544 – Orpheus, (Orphée), 1950, Jean Cocteau
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At the Café des Poètes in Paris, a fight breaks out between the poet Orphée and a group of resentful upstarts. A rival poet, Cègeste, is killed, and a mysterious princess insists on taking Orpheus and the body away in her Rolls-Royce. Orphée soon finds himself in the underworld, where the Princess announces that she is, in fact, Death. Orpheus escapes in the car back to the land of the living, only to become obsessed with the car radio.