Seydoux is an admirable Belle, and her grace and beauty make for quite the contrast to her needy and entitled sisters. The story's genealogy based in France instills a bit more hope and responsibility in a project starring Vincent Cassel, Lea Seydoux and Andre Dussolier, and directed by the Frenchman Gans. The familiar story was first written by Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villenueve in 1740, however, it's the revised version from Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont in 1756 that provides the fairy tale/fable that has been filmed so many times since. Director Christophe Gans (Silent Hill, 2006) offers up a version that is neither animated Disney (1991) nor Jean Cocteau (1946), though his film does have a visual flair that will likely keep audiences (it's not for very young kids) engaged throughout. If you are looking for the Gothic approach to the dark psychological analysis of the original story again, you've come to the wrong movie. If you are looking for dancing tea cups or singing candelabras, you've come to the wrong movie.
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