Beauty and the Beast (Panna a netvor)

„One of Czechoslovakia’s most subversive filmmakers… [Herz] made startling, exuberantly stylized films that borrow the frameworks and visual grammar of horror, fantasy, suspense, or costume drama.“ — Jeremy Lybarger, The New York Review

„Herz’s richly crafted retelling […] is definitely no children’s movie - but it is, with its arresting lyricism and striking style, an eminently worthy rival to the classic 1946 version by Jean Cocteau… Reworking the material for this dark, grimly atmospheric fable, Herz defamiliarizes it… [creating a] hybrid Beast unlike any seen on screen before, and overlaying the proceedings with a heavy air of impending doom, real danger, and the possibility of violence missing from better-known versions.“ — Nick Pinkerton, Metrograph

„Juraj Herz restored to the Beauty and the Beast myth its quivering Gothic heart… [It] pulses with a menace and cruelty rare in renderings of the tale. To tremble with love we must first pass through fear.“ — Reverse Shot

„Perhaps the most beauteous film ever that’s drawn from fairy-tale material… this is a very dark film that is also warm, sensuous and mysterious.“ — Dennis Grunes

„With its brooding atmosphere, morbidly imaginative visuals and audaciously reconceived beast, this is a unique interpretation of the tale.“ — Jonathan Owen

„A dark and visceral Gothic fantasy-melodrama.“ — Taste of Cinema

„The film is so beautifully-crafted, visually arresting and richly atmospheric the Beast could have been wearing a paper bag over his head and I still would have bought it.“ — Justin McKinney, The Bloody Pit of Horror

„Herz’s enchantingly dark and violent vision.“ — Czech Film Review