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Children of Paradise
1945 3h 11m Not Rated
Drama
,
Romance
8.3
98%
95%
81%
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The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
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Directed By
Marcel Carné
Written By
Jacques Prévert
Studio
Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma
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Cast of Children of Paradise
Arletty
Claire Reine, dite Garance
Jean-Louis Barrault
Baptiste Debureau
Pierre Brasseur
Frédérick Lemaître
Marcel Herrand
Pierre-François Lacenaire
María Casares
Nathalie
Louis Salou
Édouard comte de Montray
Pierre Renoir
Jericho
Jane Marken
Mme Hermine
Gaston Modot
Fil de Soie
Fabien Loris
Avril
Marcel Pérès
Le directeur des Funambules
Etienne Decroux
Anselme Debureau
Marcelle Monthil
Marie
Louis Florencie
Le gendarme des 'Adrets'
Habib Benglia
L'employé des bains turcs
Rognoni
Le directeur du Grand Théâtre
Jacques Castelot
Georges
Paul Frankeur
L'inspecteur de police
Albert Rémy
Scarpia Barrigni
Robert Dhéry
Célestin
Auguste Bovério
Le premier auteur de "L'auberge des Adrets"
Paul Demange
Le deuxième auteur de "L'auberge des Adrets"
Lucienne Legrand
La première jolie théâtreuse
Maurice Schutz
L'encaisseur agressé par Lacenaire
Joe Alex
Petit rôle (non crédité)
Nicolas Bataille
Extra (non crédité)
Gérard Blain
(non crédité)
Bill Bocket
Petit rôle (non crédité)
Albert Broquin
Petit rôle (non crédité)
Jacques Josselin
Petit rôle (non crédité)
Paul Temps
Petit rôle (non crédité)
Michel Vadet
Petit rôle (non crédité)
Roger Vincent
Petit rôle (non crédité)
Rivers Cadet
Un bourgeois (non crédité)
Jean Carmet
Un spectateur au paradis des Funambules (non crédité)
Jean Diéner
Le troisième auteur de "L'Auberge des Adrets" (non crédité)
Guy Favières
Un encaisseur agressé par Lacenaire (non crédité)
Jean Gold
Le deuxième dandy (non crédité)
Gustave Hamilton
Le concierge du Grand Théâtre (non crédité)
Jean Lanier
Iago - dans la représentation d' "Othello" (non crédité)
Léon Larive
Le concierge des Funambules (non crédité)
Marcel Melrac
Un gendarme (non crédité)
André Numès
L'homme qui se fait voler sa montre (non crédité)
Raphaël Patorni
Un dandy (non crédité)
Pierre Palau
Le régisseur des Funambules
Lucien Walter
Le marchand de billets (non crédité)
Cynette Quero
La deuxième jolie théâtreuse (non créditée)
Children of Paradise Reviews
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
To luxuriate in the film's 3-hour, 10-minute length is to experience this masterpiece as it hasn't been experienced since the day it opened.
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
Shot in 1943 during World War II, Children of Paradise overcame so many seemingly impossible obstacles that today the film seems enchanted.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
What ultimately defines the film, though, what makes it unforgettable, is its tragic gravity.
New York Times
Bosley Crowther
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
All discussions of Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise begin with the miracle of its making.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Carné's France, unlike the fiddle-dee-dee of Victor Fleming's cotton pickin' South, is a poetic realist's wonderland.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
If you give this movie time to work on you, the elements that seem overly artificial or impossibly distant from our own time fade into insignificance, and you're left with a complicated and wonderful romantic drama that's full of surprises.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
Marcel Carné's towering intimate epic of early 19th-century love and the lives of performers, often heralded as the greatest French film of all time.
New Yorker
Richard Brody
Poetry with a capital "P," sprinkled with fairy dust.
Chicago Reader
Don Druker
It runs 187 minutes, and it's worth every one of them.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The movie has flashes of oldtime magic. It's a precious piece of time past -- and time kept.
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
Donald J. Levit
The triumph here is the art-direction realization of 1840 Paris, where the grand monde mingled with the demimonde and the flat-out criminal.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
Marce Carne's masterpiece, made under impossible conditions during France's Occupation in WWII, is an exquisitely poetic film about the nature and forms of love and the relation between art and life.
MovieMartyr.com
Jeremy Heilman
Carne's backstage backdrop has clearly set the standard for most theater-bound films.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
An over-your-head joke... absurd.
Apollo Guide
Dan Jardine
The story behind the making of Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise) is about as interesting as the film itself, and since the film is one of the great achievements of French cinema, that's saying something.
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