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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Late eighteenth century, in a small French village. Beautiful, dreamy and passionate girl of literature, lives with her father, a wacky old inventor. Having lost a night in the forest, he takes refuge in the castle of the Beast, which is thrown into the dungeon. Never to bear to see his father imprisoned, Belle then agrees to take his place, unaware that under the mask of a monster hide a Prince Charming trembling with love for her, but victim of a horrible curse. After having rocked our younger years with cartoons that have since become classics that are passed down from generation to generation, the Walt Disney Company has been making the dream of every fan for many years: transforming animated films into feature films with live shots. Thus, after Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent, Cinderella or The Book of the Jungle, Disney has chosen to propose a new adaptation of the tale Beauty and the Beast. If the different versions succeeded one another, between the ...

MOWGLI

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MOWGLI The Jungle Book does not stop inspiring the cinema. Two years after Walt Disney, who had offered a real-life vision of Rudyard Kipling's short story, or rather his own reinterpretation of animation in the 1960s. It included the mythical songs of the cartoon and an average result, too dark for children, too childish for adults. This time, Andy Serkis sticks to it, with a project that was presented as radically different. No more cute re-reading of Disney, instead of the darkness of the original work: here is Mowgli: The Legend of the Jungle. This project is actually older than Jon Favreau's feature film, but his secretive release on Netflix rather than in cinemas around the world sums up the series of problems he has experienced. In preparation for many years, it offers an intriguing result by its violence and darkness, rid of the lightness of the Disney, but which is difficult to take off completely. Interesting, if not really convincing The starting point is alwa...