Beauty and the Beast
Conjuring Nosferatu: Robert Eggers Presents
February 5 - 9, 2025
Among world cinema’s greatest fairy tales, Cocteau’s timeless 1946 adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s 1757 story endures one of the medium’s most beloved and influential fantasies.
Among world cinema’s greatest fairy tales, Jean Cocteau’s 1946 adaptation of Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont’s 1757 story endures as one of the medium’s most beloved and influential fantasies. Jean Marais (as the feral Beast) and Josette Day (as the young Beauty who transforms his heart) turn in historically romantic and utterly magnetic performances that, combined with a delirious array of exquisite sets and costumes and Cocteau’s penchant for harnessing the artifice of filmmaking to conjure a world beyond and yet within our own, cohere into a timeless reflection on wonder, romantic desire, and death.
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