I just finished watching Cocteau's film, 
"Beauty and the Beast".It is such a gorgeous and magical film. From the first frame to the last, the film is director Jean Cocteau's fantasy, a visual masterpiece.
The whole surrealistic experience dazzles the senses with camerawork that has seldom been equaled. The sets are both awesome and fascinating, the decor of the castle patterned after illustrations by Gustave Dore. Art director Christian Berard took Cocteau's
astounding ideas and transformed them into wonderful sets, amazing costumes, and the Beast's marvelous mask, one that made him almost attractive instead of ugly.
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