Beauty and the Beast (2014)

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Movie
German title Beauty and the Beast
Original title La Belle et la Bete
Country of production France , Germany
original language French
Publishing year 2014
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
JMK 10
Rod
Director Christophe Goose
script Christophe Gans,
Sandra Vo-Anh
production Richard Grandpierre
music Pierre Adenot
camera Christophe Beaucarne
cut Sébastien Prangère
occupation

Beauty and the Beast (Original title: La Belle et la Bête ) is a German-French film by director Christophe Gans from 2014 with Léa Seydoux , Vincent Cassel and André Dussollier . Gans wrote the script together with Sandra Vo-Anh based on the French fairy tale of the same name, Beauty and the Beast by Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve .

action

France, 1810: After his three ships disappear at sea, a widowed merchant goes bankrupt. He is forced to sell his house and property and move into a house in the country with his six children. His daughter Belle is the only one who makes the move happy. One day the family got word that one of the lost ships had been found. The merchant returns to the city to get his goods back, but has to learn that he is no longer entitled to them due to several signed contracts. He also meets Perducas, with whom his son is heavily in debt.

After Perducas wants to attack the merchant, he flees into a forest. There he discovers the magical castle of the beast. The merchant takes treasures from the castle, but is caught by the beast when he tries to take a rose for Belle. The beast allows the merchant to go. However, he must return and receive his sentence, otherwise the beast will kill the entire family of the merchant. Belle, plagued by guilt, steals her father's horse and returns to the castle in his place.

In the castle, Belle receives a lot of luxurious goods and permission to explore the property. In the evening, however, she always has to return and dine with the beast. During dinner, the beast asks Belle if she would love him, but Belle refuses his proposal. At night Belle dreams of the castle as it once was and of a prince who had lived there. The prince is in love with a princess who promises to marry him. However, it sets the condition that the prince must stop hunting a golden doe in the woods.

Belle asks the beast to see her family one more time. The beast approves it, but warns her that if she doesn't come back, it will die. At home, Belle learns that her siblings are hiding from Perducas and his followers. When Belle's eldest brother sees her elegant dress, he assumes that there are more riches in the castle. He seeks out Perducas and his men and promises to lead them to the castle if they leave his family in peace in return. The group travels to the castle, where they take all of the gold. Under the gold there is a golden arrow held by a statue.

Belle has another dream in which the prince breaks his promise and shoots the golden doe with an arrow. While she is dying, the doe transforms into the princess. She reveals to her husband that she is a forest nymph and that her father is the god of the forest. The god of the forest punishes the prince by turning him into a beast and his friends into statues. This curse cannot be broken until someone loves the beast as it is.

Belle wakes up to learn that her brothers and Perducas have left for the castle, and she rushes after them. When she arrives, she has to watch the beast and his transformed friends kill Perducas' followers. The beast stops the attack when Belle begs for mercy. Perducas exploits the moment and mortally wounds the beast with the golden arrow. Together with her brothers she carries the beast to a healing water in the castle. As the beast dies, it asks Belle if she could ever love him, to which Belle replies that she already does. The beast sinks into the water and turns back into the prince.

The film ends with Belle and the Prince getting married and living in the same house in the country with Belle's father and two children.

background

The film was shot entirely in the Babelsberg Studio in Potsdam-Babelsberg , Germany , with a production budget of 45 million euros . The film studio, which is also co-producing, has built detailed sets in its studios: the castle with its magnificent banquet hall, which is literally taken over by the ancient tree roots crawling in through the windows, a noble bedchamber that turns into a grotto, artfully turned staircases, Gothic windows, a fireplace held by monumental lion figures and antlers and much more. The entire film was made exclusively in the studio, where, in addition to the aforementioned castle scenery, the wooden country house of Belle's family was built. The cinema release in France was on February 12, 2014. In Germany, Beauty and the Beast was played out of competition at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival and started nationwide on May 1.

reception

Beauty and the Beast received the rating "valuable" from the German film and media rating. In the statement of the jury, the rich equipment with "splendid costumes and splendid decor" as well as the "cleverly inserted computer animation" were emphasized. On the other hand, it was criticized that the love story is “not completely understandable”, because the love between the beautiful and the beast appears “rather distant, almost soulless”.

The film service described the film as an “elaborate film adaptation of French fairy tales with expensive special effects and costumes” and found that only “the predominantly computer-generated backdrops” were attractive, “while the film was extremely modest in terms of presentation and content”.

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Beauty and the Beast . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2014 (PDF; test number: 144 461 V).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Beauty and the Beast . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ^ Romain Le Vern: "La belle et la bête" et "Noé", two films attendus en 2014. In: TF1. Archived from the original on January 31, 2014 (French).;
  4. ↑ "Scenes of a dream world: On Friday Studio Babelsberg celebrates its third Berlinale premiere with" Beauty and the Beast " . In: pnn.de . Retrieved December 14, 2017.
  5. ↑ JP's box office . Retrieved May 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ Film data sheet Berlinale 2014 . In: berlinale . Retrieved January 15, 2014.
  7. ↑ Beauty and the Beast. German Film and Media Rating (FBW) , accessed on July 1, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Beauty and the Beast (2013). Film service, accessed May 8, 2018 .