Enrique Rivero in The Blood of a Poet (1930, dir. Jean Cocteau)

Les Enfants Terribles (1950, dir. Jean-Pierre Melville)

Josette Day in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau)

Josette Day in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau)

The “living sculpture” of the Beast’s enchanted castle in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau)

“Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.”

-Jean Cocteau

Jean Marais & Josette Day in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau)

“It is excruciating to be an unbeliever with a spirit that is deeply religious.”

-Jean Cocteau (photo by Berenice Abbott, 1927)

Josette Day in Beauty and the Beast (1946, dir. Jean Cocteau) (via)