Belle et la Bete

As part of their "Views From the Edge" series, the Rosendale Theatre screens iconic French filmmaker Jean Cocteau's 1946 La Belle et la Bête, the original black-and-white version of Disney's popular adaptation. Upon seeing the film in 1947, critic Bosley Crowther wrote that it was a “priceless fabric of subtle images…a fabric of gorgeous visual metaphors, of undulating movements and rhythmic pace, of hypnotic sounds and music, of casually congealing ideas.”