Jean Marais

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La Belle Et La Bete review by Zamy from London, England

A gothic fairy tale 16 December 2004
...lack and white cinematography, special effects and the acting particularly from Jean Marais. This DVD also comes packed with extras, including a knowledgeable commenta... Read customer review

Orphee review by from London

Underworld Paris 6 April 2006
...n 40's Paris it retells the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.The poet Orphee (Jean Marais) falls in love with Death (played as a femme fatale by Maria Casarès)and his wi... Read customer review

Donkey Skin review by A customer from Newcastle upon Tyne

Ludicrous but somehow compelling! 3 December 2005
...h production values and big name actors, and if it's through a search on either Jean Marais or Catherine Deneuve that you have arrived here be warned! - this is no highbro... Read customer review

Stealing Beauty on DVD (1995)
Starring: Sinead Cusack, Jeremy Irons, Jean Marais
Director: Bernardo Bertolucci
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This beautiful if ponderous soufflé of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends residing there. Lucy visited four years earlier and ..read more »

61% from 3,512 members

Donkey Skin on DVD (1970)
Starring: Catherine Deneuve, Jean Marais, Jacques Perrin
Director: Jacques Demy
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A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry a man she doesn't love.

63% from 309 members

Le Bossu on DVD (1960)
Starring: Jean Marais, Bourvil, Jean Le Poulain
Director: Andre Hunebelle
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Set in the court of Louis XIV from the novel by Paul Feval a swashbuckling adventure of revenge and honour.

58% from 235 members

White Nights (1957)
Starring: Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais
Director: Luchino Visconti
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A humble clerk courts a woman who night after night awaits for the return of her lover.

63% from 16 members
Currently unavailable

Orphee on DVD (1950)
Starring: Jean Marais, Maria Casares, Francois Perier
Director: Jean Cocteau
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Cocteau's luminous adaptation of the famous Greek myth, set in post-occupation Paris, remains one of the most stunning achievements of the auteur's career. Orphee (Jean Marais) is a successful Parisian poet, whom--despite popular acclaim--feels isolated and uninspired. When his wife Eurydice (Marie ..read more »

71% from 2,108 members

Les Parents Terribles (1948)
Starring: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre
Director: Jean Cocteau
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When Michel tells his parents he is in love they both dispair for different reasons. While his mother is concerned she will lose her son to this other woman, his father is even more distressed when he learns that this woman is none other than his own mistress, Madeleine. Through a complicated ruse ..read more »

46% from 5 members
Currently unavailable

La Belle Et La Bete on DVD (1946)
Starring: Jean Marais, Josette Day, Marcel Andre
Director: Jean Cocteau
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Visionary filmmaker and poet Jean Cocteau responded to the terrors and creative constraints of occupied France with this elaborately realized take on the classic fairy tale BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. Suggested by his longtime collaborator and muse, French actor Jean Marais, the cinematic version of the ..read more »

71% from 3,027 members

Stealing Beauty - 3.0 stars
Donkey Skin - 3.0 stars
Le Bossu - 3.0 stars
White Nights - 3.0 stars
Orphee - 3.5 stars

Orphee - 3.5 stars
La Belle Et La Bete - 3.5 stars
Donkey Skin - 3.0 stars
Stealing Beauty - 3.0 stars
Le Bossu - 3.0 stars

Les Parents Terribles - 2.5 stars
White Nights - 3.0 stars
Le Bossu - 3.0 stars
Stealing Beauty - 3.0 stars
Donkey Skin - 3.0 stars

Josette Day - 2 times - show films
Marcel Andre - 2 times - show films
Michel Auclair - 1 times - show films
Yvonne de Bray - 1 times - show films
Jacques Perrin - 1 times - show films

Jean Cocteau - 3 times - show films
Andre Hunebelle - 1 times - show films
Jacques Demy - 1 times - show films
Luchino Visconti - 1 times - show films
Bernardo Bertolucci - 1 times - show films