{"id":3772,"date":"2024-07-02T20:31:05","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/filmas\/grazuole-ir-pabaisa\/"},"modified":"2024-08-16T15:54:28","modified_gmt":"2024-08-16T12:54:28","slug":"beauty-and-the-beast","status":"publish","type":"filmas","link":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/filmas\/beauty-and-the-beast\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and the Beast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The screening is a part of the <em>Deep Rivers Run Silent<\/em> programme, coordinated by <em>Meno avilys<\/em>. It starts the series of the events of the 11th Vilnius Queer Festival <em>Kreiv\u0117s<\/em> and marks the 20th anniversary of <em>i\u0161girsti<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Beauty and the Beast<\/em> is one of the most important films by the French queer poet, writer and artist Jean Cocteau, and an example of an incredibly sophisticated cinematic aesthetic. The film is characterised by its vivid imagination, its sumptuous costumes, its unique set design (Beauty\u2019s home is inspired by Flemish paintings and Vermeer\u2019s canvases, while the Beast\u2019s dwelling recalls Gustave Dor\u00e9\u2019s illustrations of Perrault\u2019s fairy tales), the skill of cinematographer Henri Alekan (Beauty\u2019s world is not the same as that of the Beast\u2019s), and the superb performances of Josette Day and Jean-Marais. Cocteau narrates the fairy tale written in the 18th century in his own way. Beauty\u2019s father picks a rose from the Beast\u2019s garden and gives it to his daughter. To save her father from death, Beauty sacrifices herself and goes to the Beast\u2019s castle in his stead.<\/p>\n<p>The film is most often interpreted as a coming-of-age parable: Beauty moves from her father\u2019s care into the unknown realm of adult sexuality. But it is clear that for Cocteau, what is most important is the Beast, the classical Other of normative culture. Moving away from the traditional tale of Beauty\u2019s love that transforms the beast into a prince, Cocteau creates a world in which the intentions of humans towards Beauty grow increasingly sinister, and the Beast\u2019s intentions become more convincingly honourable and good. The unexpectedly ambiguous and complex character of the Beast is created by Cocteau\u2019s muse and lover Jean Marais. He also plays two other roles in the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","programa":[22],"class_list":["post-3772","filmas","type-filmas","status-publish","hentry","programa-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filmas\/3772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/filmas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/filmas"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"programa","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festivaliskreives.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programa?post=3772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}