“Love can turn a man into a beast. But love can also make an ugly man handsome.”
This film can be summed up in two words: pure magic. The world, production design, costumes, and make up are all just so enchanting. The film radiates being a fairy tale and really stays in that’s lane. It works for this story because the romance at the center of it is so grand. It is really interesting to see what Linda Woolverton and the team of people at Walt Disney Pictures took inspiration from here and what was changed from this film and the original story in BEAUTY & THE BEAST (1991). The film is unbalanced at times, but it is hard not to fall in love with how it is made complete with anthropomorphic furniture and statues and the early movie magic that makes them possible. I’m excited to see more of Cocteau’s imagination in other films.
