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Children of Paradise

Les enfants du paradis

1945

Marcel Carné

Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, Arletty ...

8.1

3,707

Romance. Drama It follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault), in a world teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers...

	Media	Author	Review
		Joshua Rothkopf Time Out	"Marcel Carné's 19th-century backstage drama was the epitome of good taste: a sumptuous spread of genteel sparring and epic heartache"
		Richard Brody The New Yorker	"Poetry with a capital 'P,' sprinkled with fairy dust"
		Don Druker Chicago Reader	"It runs 187 minutes, and it's worth every one of them"
		Desson Thomson The Washington Post	"The movie has flashes of oldtime magic. It's a precious piece of time past -- and time kept"
		Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"To see Marcel Carné's 'Children of Paradise' under any circumstances is to be transported and transformed by cinema."
		Bosley Crowther The New York Times	"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."
		Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"Few achievements in the world of cinema can equal it (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"
		Ed Gonzalez Slant	"Carné‘s France (...) is a poetic realist’s wonderland, a gateway to a dreamworld where human laws are mere judicial errors and love is so painful to hold onto it can only be savored in the moment (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

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