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Jean Marais
Jean Marais was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He was best known for his work in the films of Jean Cocteau, such as Beauty and the Beast and Orpheus. Marais also starred in Hollywood productions including The Longest Day and The Count of Monte Cristo. He died in 1998 at the age of 84.
Titles credited to Jean Marais
La Belle et la Bête
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her tha...
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Orphée
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Les Parents terribles
Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threaten...
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Le Livre d'image
In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts from books, uses fragments of music. The driving force is po...
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Le Masque de fer
The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
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