BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1978)
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A tale you'll know well — innocent girl presents herself as sacrifice to a cursed, freakish beast living in isolation, and learns to live with and love her captor — is turned into something very different in Juraj Herz's morbid imagining. Reworking well-known source material for this dark, grimly atmospheric fable, Herz defamiliarizes it, imagining a beaked bird/snake/mammal hybrid Beast unlike any seen on screen before, and overlaying the proceedings with a heavy air of impending doom — a sense of real danger that's missing from better-known versions, where the possibility of violence looms terribly near. (Note courtesy of Metrograph/Nick Pinkerton.) DIR/SCR Juraj Herz; SCR Ota Hofman, František Hrubín, from his play based on the fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Czechoslovakia, 1978, color, 84 min. In Czech with English subtitles. NOT RATED
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Run Time: 84 Minutes
Opening Date: Friday, November 08, 2019
Genre: Horror fantasy
