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The Children of Paradise

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The Children of Paradise
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3hrs 9min
Genres:
Drama,Romance
Release:
1945
Director:
Marcel Carné
Distributor:
Criterion
Starring:
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur  ...more
Synopsis: Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Prévert's screenplay concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty). Each loves Garance in his own fashion, but only the intentions of sensitive mime-actor Deburau (Jean-Louis Barrault) are entirely honorable; as a result, it is he who suffers most, hurdling one obstacle after another in pursuit of an evidently unattainable goal. In the ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Shooting secretly over a two-year period during the German Occupation of France, director Marcel Carné and writer Jacques Prévert produced their grandest masterwork. In the 19th century Paris theater world, life and performance become interchangeable, as the complex romantic entanglements of Arletty's inscrutable Garance with superficial actor Frederick, a wealthy count, and especially Jean-Louis Barrault's ... Full Review
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Arletty
Garance
Jean-Louis Barrault
Baptiste Deburau
Pierre Brasseur
Frederick Lemaitre
Marcel Herrand
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