I am sure you saw the title to today’s movie review and thought to yourself why? Before you click away, chances are you never saw this version of a classic story. This version was done in 1947 by Jean Cocteau, one of the 20th century’s most multi-talented artists. I saw this movie on a public broadcasting station when I was a small child. Images from this movie have stayed with me all these years, they were that powerful for me. Watching this film on DVD recently, I was immediately transported to a fantasy world that was filled with every imaginable shade of colorful magic as the surreal, artistic black and white scenes unfolded before my eyes. There are times, I feel, where we need to let the inner child in us come out and play. With this movie you are in store, for not only letting that inner child come out and play, but seeing how a true artist made a movie before computers took over.  French with English subtitles.

3 1/3 stars — DVD