FANS of Beauty And The Beast will never be able to enjoy Belle’s library in the castle or dance with a candlestick, but they CAN prance through the heroine’s home village of Villeneuve. It ...

Like many Disney princesses, Belle is minus one parent. In the cartoon, her mother’s absence is never explained, but the new movie devotes an entire sub-plot to solving the mystery.

The Beast’s new castle combines architectural styles, but the majority of it is French Rococo, a style prevalent in 1740s France, which is found, for instance, at the Palace of Versailles.

As for the principals, I sometimes questioned whether Dan Stevens' Beast needed to look quite so much like a hirsute Sam Malone, but the live-action adaptation's most noteworthy departure is Belle.

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