Beauty And The Beast (La belle et la bête)
A wealthy merchant lives with three beautiful daughters. Two sisters are the selfish but the youngest daughter Belle owns a saintly soul. On the way home after a business trip, the father gets lost in a castle and picks a bright red rose there, so he is threatened by a monster - the owner of the castle, 'You is only left with the rose if then you shall return '. Knowing the story, because loving her father, Belle accepts to live the castle with the monster…
1 August 1985, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
29 October 1982, Brussels, Belgium
17 April 1968, Rome, Lazio, Italy
1960, Heidelberg, Germany
17 February 1946, Annecy, Haute-Savoie, France
2 December 1979, Erfurt, German Democratic Republic [now Federal Republic of Germany]
11 June 1955, Wuppertal, Germany
1 July 1985, Paris, France
26 September 1977, Austria
October 26, 2016
At times, Beauty and the Beast seems more like a demented Asian movie than a French one, to its merit. A quantifiably bad movie, but also certifiably grandiose.
September 23, 2016
It's a fun, beautiful drama that's a good way to while away two hours. But if Gans had been able to dial it back just a bit, he might have had something even better.
September 23, 2016
Gans and Co. have given us a sumptuous and highly watchable take on the story that is a more than worthy work in its own right.
September 21, 2016
As gorgeous as the movie, it ultimately remains a highly detailed painting positioned behind velvet ropes, unable to connect beyond winning craftsmanship.
September 22, 2016
Belongs to the most rote category of interpretations, hinting at nothing darker than a fascination with sulking bad boys bored by wealth.
October 27, 2016
This 2014 adaptation of the French fairy tale looks spectacular, with vibrant landscapes and lavish 18th-century costumes, but... [Léa Seydoux, as the fair maiden, and Vincent Cassell] are stiff and perfunctory.
February 21, 2017
Works better as cinematic spectacle than as compassionate romantic drama. Fortunately, their afterthought of a romance dampens but does not spoil the movie's cumulatively handsome spell.
September 22, 2016
The film is most acceptable when it sticks to its beauty-and-beast dynamic. Even then it's too dizzying and grandiose and the chemistry between the lead characters is pretty much nil.
October 06, 2016
It's beastly.
September 20, 2016
It has a breathtaking ornamentation, like a dazzlingly decorated storybook cover. But once opened, you realize the pages of romantic prose are few and far between.
January 02, 2017
Gans isn't especially concerned with the outcome this coupling, instead reveling in overwrought and often bloated storytelling, lush details and some of the year's most unnerving CGI.
September 21, 2016
...it's rich in visual imagination. If only there were a little more faith in the visuals' ability to tell the story by themselves.
