Every day, AlloCiné recommends a film to (re)watch on TV. Tonight: Christophe Gans adapts a famous tale.
Eight years after the horror film Silent Hill, Christophe Gans returns to the cinema with an ambitious project: that of adapting the tale of Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve, The beauty and the Beast. If the director wishes to pay homage to Jean Cocteau’s classic, he also wishes to offer a new vision of this famous love story, by bringing a more contemporary level of reading.
This rewriting is carried by two main actors whose choice is obvious for Christophe Gans. On the one hand, Léa Seydoux is chosen for her ability to be both natural and sophisticated. On the other, Vincent Cassel – whom the filmmaker finds thirteen years after directing him in The Pact of the Wolves – proves to be the ideal actor to embody a decadent prince and a beast.
Filmed in the mythical Babelsberg studios, which housed the filming of many works of German expressionist cinema, Beauty and the Beast mixes ancient mythology, Japanese magic à la Miyazaki and digital special effects, offering breathtaking sets, justly rewarded at the Césars.
Christophe Gans thus delivers top-of-the-range entertainment, demonstrative of high-level French know-how, and suitable for all audiences. Released in 2014, The beauty and the Beast attracts 1.8 million cinema viewers.
The beauty and the Beast by Christophe Gans with Vincent Cassel, Léa Seydoux, André Dussollier…
Tonight on NRJ12 at 9:10 p.m.