The 34thFrench Cinepanorama26/11, 31/12
Cinema, HK Film Archive
Broadway Cinematheque
Beauty and the Beast
美女與野獸
1946
/ B&W
黑白 / 95 mins
English Subtitles 英文字幕
Cast 演員：
Jean Marais, Josette Day,
Marcel André, Raoul Marco
尚．馬赫、梭茜德．戴依、
馬素．安狄、雷奧．馬戈
Unlike the musical or the Disney version, this is the first treatment of The Beauty and the Beast as a sentimental love story. The castle of the Beast is spellbinding: a corridor with real arms holding torches, reliefs of human faces with rolling eyes, tears that turn into diamonds, invisible gloves that appear everywhere, a Greek goddess guarding the eternal flower... Cocteau juxtaposes the ugly Beast and the Beauty to suggest the inside/outside, conscious/subconscious of human beings and the complex duality of bestiality and humanity.
這不是音樂劇版或迪士尼版的《美女與野獸》，而是淒美愛情電影版之濫觴。 野獸的城堡神秘得使人迷醉：真人手臂提著火炬的走廊、眼珠滾動的人面浮雕、變成鑽石的眼淚、能讓人穿梭各地的隱形手套、還有那位看守著永恆之花的希臘女神。導演把野獸的醜和美女的美不時並置，來表現人類內 / 外，意識 / 潛意識，獸性 / 人性的複雜性相。在兩個愛得傷痛欲絕的猙獰和美麗的面孔下，隱藏 ? 一個無法破解的兩難：要靚定要心。當內在美戰勝外在醜時，人類的慾望魔咒方會化解，乾坤逆轉。