This 1945 drama, by French director Marcel Carne, was made during the Nazi occupation of France. Set among the Parisian...
This 1945 drama, by French director Marcel Carne, was made during the Nazi occupation of France. Set among the Parisian theatre scene of the 1820s and '30s, it tells the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat.
A three-hour film divided into two halves, it was described in the original American trailer as the French answer to Gone with the Wind. The film was voted Best French Film Ever in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in 1995.
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95 %7,607 reviewsAudience score rating
"Marcel Carne's great 1945 film "Les Enfants du Paradis" is a hymn to actors, to the luxuriant power of art, and to France itself, whose spirit -- the film was made during the German Occupation -- remains as unvanquished as that of the simultaneously pervasive and elusive Garance, the courtesan who best embodies it."
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Variety
Variety"On the basis alone of performance and of its bold, picturesque mise en scene, Les Enfants du Paradis is worth your custom. What you get otherwise is to boot."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Few achievements in the world of cinema can equal it."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Moves briskly and gracefully on the strength of its witty dialogue and sumptuous visuals, but has a greater emotional pull than it ever openly suggests."
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A.V. Club
A.V. ClubChildren of Paradise | Details
- Runtime
- 195
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Country of origin
- France
