Word: cocteau
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cocteau treats the story as the enchantment it is. A film of mystery falls over everything in the film--candelabras are gripped by arms that move, statues' eyes follow the characters people appear and disappear at will. Realism is never allowed to intrude anywhere. Instead a web of visual charms is spun about the tale...
Fantasy is as you like it in any case. Some people have carped at Cocteau for 'inadequate' makeup of the Beast. if you want to believe, then the makeup of the Beast is of no interest; if you do not want, to the smallest item can destroy the illusion. Those who can appreciate fantasy will find in this Cocteau effort a masterpiece in the form, a work of chidlike loveliness and conviction...
Once again last week, O'Brady's modest talent enchanted Paris. Her art needed no guide; her portraits were recognizable. Among her sitters: Jack-of-Arts Jean Cocteau, Poet Paul Eluard, and John Steinbeck (who urged her to return to the U.S. and paint American workmen...
...Cocteau has transformed (with much historical irony) almost all of the serpentine story. The Cocteau version is about a young blood named Patrick (Jean Marais), who runs off with his Uncle Mark's blonde, beautiful wife, Nathalie (Madeleine Sologne...
...Cocteau has cleverly managed to waken the body of the legend to 20th Century life without rousing its spirit from medieval slumbers. His rattling flivvers and gleaming bathrooms are woven into the fine fabric of the ancient Tristan and Iseult legend like bright new threads into a shadowy old tapestry...