Beauty of the Devil Blu-ray
HomeBeauty of the Devil Blu-ray
Posted August 6, 2013 04:59 PM by Webmaster
Cohen Media Group has revealed that it plans to release on Blu-ray acclaimed director Rene Clair's (I Married a Witch) La beauté du diable a.k.a Beauty of the Devil (1950), starring Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, and Simone Valère. The preliminary release date set by the studio is October 29th.
The Beauty of the Devil was recently restored by French label Gaumont.
When Gérard Philipe's "second rate devil" Mephistopheles makes that famous pact with Michel Simon's forlorn alchemist Faust — one soul in return for sex, power, and youth, not to mention the secrets of the universe — the two exchange bodies, with the ancient Faust transformed into the handsome, dashing young Philipe, and vice versa. But then Philipe/Faust gets a peek at the post-atomic horrors to come…
The Beauty of the Devil was recently restored by French label Gaumont.
When Gérard Philipe's "second rate devil" Mephistopheles makes that famous pact with Michel Simon's forlorn alchemist Faust — one soul in return for sex, power, and youth, not to mention the secrets of the universe — the two exchange bodies, with the ancient Faust transformed into the handsome, dashing young Philipe, and vice versa. But then Philipe/Faust gets a peek at the post-atomic horrors to come…
