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(Or scroll down for images and details. Lenin is a participant in the eBay (EPN) affiliate program) La Belle et la Bęte (1946) is full of remarkable details that continue to make the film fascinating nearly eighty years after its release. Jean Cocteau believed cinema should work like poetry rather than realism, and throughout the film he deliberately used slow gestures, silence, mirrors, smoke, and candlelight to create what he described as a “beautiful dream.” The transformation scenes were achieved through stop-camera substitutions — an early special effect where filming stopped, objects were changed, and the camera restarted to create the illusion of sudden magic. Real human arms emerging from the walls to hold the castle’s candelabras became one of the film’s most famous visual inventions. The effect was unsettling partly because audiences could see they were genuine living arms rather than props. Jean Marais became so associated with the Beast that many viewers found his appearance without make-up at the end of the film unexpectedly strange, a reaction Cocteau found amusing. Walt Disney admired Cocteau’s version of the story, and echoes of its visual atmosphere can still be seen in later fantasy and fairy-tale films produced decades afterwards. This reproduction movie poster celebrates one of the most imaginative fantasy films ever made, and is especially appealing to collectors of classic French cinema, surreal imagery, and vintage movie art.
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Type: Reproduction Poster
The image for this item is a digital scan of the poster that you will receive. Sized: 27 x 40 In - 69cm x 102cm.
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