Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
by Marcel Carn?
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Actor: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Mar?a Casares, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre RenoirDirector: Marcel Carn?
Brand: Image Entertainment
Cinematographer: Marc Fossard
Cinematographer: Roger Hubert
Editor: Henri Rust
Editor: Madeleine Bonin
Producer: Fred Orain
Producer: Raymond Borderie
Writer: Jacques Pr?vert
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 190 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
Movie Reviews of Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
Movie Review: A masterpiece!
Summary: 5 Stars
Not only is this film a mastepiece of French classical movie making, especially during the hard times of the German occupation, but also the remastered edition is absolutely well done, much better than the old editions I saw in the cinema in France. They have really enhanced image and sound to levels never observed before.
Summary of Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
Poetic realism reaches sublime heights with Children of Paradise (Les enfants du paradis), the ineffably witty tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carn? and screenwriter Jacques Pr?vert resurrect the tumultuous world of 19th-century Paris, teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this milestone of cinema in a new high-definition film transfer made from the restored negative.A tragic French epic considered a classic romantic film, Children of Paradise takes as its setting a theater troupe in Paris during the 19th century, but was actually filmed during the last years of World War II. In the troupe, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault) falls in love with an actress in the company, but must vie for her affections with others, including a thief, an actor, and an influential count. When the actress is accused of theft, the mime exonerates her with a bravura performance for the prefect. Eventually, though, the actress must flee Paris under protection of the count after being mixed up in a crime with the thief, leaving the smitten mime heartbroken. In the intervening years, both become involved with others, the actress with the count and the mime with the daughter of the theater owner, eventually having a child. Both couples are unhappy, and although the mime rises above the poverty-stricken neighborhood where he has honed his trade and becomes wildly successful, he still pines away for the love of his life. Eventually the two lovers are meant to meet again, but their storybook ending may yet elude them. The film boasts a picaresque squalor drawn from the time in which it was set, highlighting the tenacious romance at its core. Children of Paradise has a melancholy feeling both authentic and immediate, a romance with moments of pure magic. --Robert Lane
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