Stunning Trailer for Christophe Gans' BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
This is the first trailer for the Christophe Gans-directed live-action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast, and it looks like a visually stunning film. Gans is the director hat brought us such movies as Brotherhood Of The Wolf and Silent Hill, and it looks like he did an incredible job with this one. The movie stars Léa Seydoux as Beauty and Vincent Cassel as Beast. The trailer is in French, and there are no subtitles, but I'm sure you'll still enjoy it. Here's what the director had to say about the film in a previous statement,
Beauty And The Beast is the adaptation of a story by Madame de Villeneuve. Published anonymously in 1740 as La Jeune Américaine et les contes marins, it paints a portrait of Belle, a joyful and touching young girl who falls in love with the Beast, a cursed creature in search of love and redemption. In 1760, a condensed children’s version was published. It was from this version that Jean Cocteau and then Walt Disney drew their famous adaptations. Overshadowed, the original version by Madame de Villeneuve has never been adapted for the screen... until now!
Beauty And The Beast is the story of a family going through a crisis, having lost all of its possessions when the father was ruined. The encounter - at first terrifying, but then voluptuous - with this mythical Beast provides our characters with an opportunity to get back on their feet. I like to think that this film is a metaphor for the situation that is currently afflicting the world. That is one of the advantages of fairy tales, to present an ensemble of values that endure through the ages.
Beauty And The Beast speaks, among other things, of the power of dreams and love over materialism and corruption - a theme more topical now than ever. It was time to pay tribute to Madame de Villeneuve’s story: an amazingly contemporary tale, in which the poem of love is also a message of hope.
As of right now there are no US or UK release dates yet, but the movie opens in France on February 12th, 2014.
Via: The Film Stage