Section 5.2 Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast
Jean Cocteau was a poet, a playwrite, a filmmaker, and an artist. The World Wide Web houses information on all of these creative roles Cocteau assumed:
- Learn about Cocteau's poetry! Two of Jean Cocteau's poems read by Cocteau himself are archived on Ubuweb.com
- Read an analysis of Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast that describes some of the technical problems encountered in the filmmaking.
- Cocteau's World is a remarkable page put together for a symposium on Cocteau's work: don't forget to read the biography of Cocteau that is archived here.
- Another biography and filmography is archived at the Jean Cocteau page.
- This index links to Cocteau's art, films, and poetry.
- Search the World Wide Web for other examples of Vermeer's paintings, and evaluate for yourselves whether David Cook's claim is true.
According to David Cook, Cocteau's film borrows its visual style from the artistic style of Vermeer. Consider the resemblences between Cocteau's mise-en-scène and Vermeer's by examining the painting to the left.
