{"id":14375,"date":"2013-10-07T01:58:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T00:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=14375"},"modified":"2020-03-14T23:43:24","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T23:43:24","slug":"la-belle-et-la-bete-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2013\/10\/07\/la-belle-et-la-bete-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"La Belle et la B\u00eate posters"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Clive’s posts last week about Cocteau’s La Belle et la B\u00eate<\/em> (here<\/a>, here<\/a> and here<\/a>) sent me back to the film, a most welcome re-viewing. This in turn had me searching for copies of the posters of which these are some of the better examples. No dates or credits, unfortunately, although the French ones above and below look as though they may have been drawn by the film’s production designer, Christian B\u00e9rard. (Update: not B\u00e9rard, they’re the work of poster artist Jean-Denis Malcl\u00e8s.)<\/p>\n

The style of B\u00e9rard’s drawings, and much of the film itself, had me thinking this time round of Hein Heckroth, Michael Powell’s favourite production designer whose sketches also had a painterly style. Powell and Pressburger’s The Red Shoes<\/em> (with designs by Heckroth) appeared a couple of years after La Belle et la B\u00eate<\/em> although Powell doesn’t mention Cocteau at all in his autobiography so there’s no need to go looking for influences. Both films are based on fairy tales, of course. Powell shared Cocteau’s taste for fantasy and cinematic magic although the closest he gets to the story of Beauty and the Beast is Peeping Tom<\/em> (1960), a film that contains little of either. By coincidence, Powell scholar Ian Christie calls Peeping Tom<\/em> the director’s equivalent of Cocteau’s Le testament d’Orph\u00e9e<\/em> which was also released in 1960. But that’s a speculation for another day.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The writhing on the wall<\/a>
\n\u2022 Le livre blanc by Jean Cocteau<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cocteau\u2019s sword<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cristalophonics: searching for the Cocteau sound<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cocteau at the Louvre des Antiquaires<\/a>
\n\u2022 La Villa Santo Sospir by Jean Cocteau<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clive’s posts last week about Cocteau’s La Belle et la B\u00eate (here, here and here) sent me back to the film, a most welcome re-viewing. This in turn had me searching for copies of the posters of which these are some of the better examples. No dates or credits, unfortunately, although the French ones above … Continue reading “La Belle et la B\u00eate posters”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,4,7],"tags":[5262,767,355,2073,3713,132,354],"class_list":["post-14375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design","category-film","tag-christian-berard","tag-clive-hicks-jenkins","tag-emeric-pressburger","tag-hein-heckroth","tag-ian-christie","tag-jean-cocteau","tag-michael-powell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-3JR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}