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, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 190 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-01-22
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Criterion
DVD Reviews of Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
DVD Review: Amazing-
Summary: 5 Stars
Words like "dreamlike" and "magic" do come to mind. I simply want to give my praise along with the rest of this film's very appreciative audience. Clearly one of Criterion Collection's most essential releases. With this release by Criterion Collection this sumptuous film looks as fantastic as it did the night it opened in Paris shortly after the liberation. You'll probably understand why "Children of Paradise" has consistently been considered the greatest French film by that country's film critic community even if your an American and not very sophisticated like me. You don't need to be at all, seems to me! You needn't be able to chat anybody up on "poetic realism" or know anything about French cinema in general. Don't bother yourself, unless you want to, because that stuff is interesting. And it should be noted that the making of "Children of Paradise" is surely one of the most remarkable stories in film history. It was shot in secrecy during the Nazi occupation of France. Many involved in the production were active in the Resistance and would have been arrested if discovered by the Nazis. How romantic! Exciting background that only adds to one's appreciation of the film. The story, well, it's about love and so of course about pain and things that go along with both and it's beautiful. DVD Review: The best french film ever.
Summary: 5 Stars
Children of Paradise - Criterion Collection
Superb remastering.Image as well as audio. I understand French, even the English subtitles are great, nothing is lost by the translation. A classic: whenever I see it again, I find new details. Unlike most films that you watch only once.
All actors excellent. Jean Louis Barrault superb.
I watched this film when I was 13. My mother took me to the cinema, it was my first serious movie. I am now 76, and was so impressed that I still remember it. So I decided I wanted to see it again. Amazon had it. No wonder.
Not for all public. If you look for violence and sex it definitely is not for you.
Raul Kostin
Santiago, Chile
DVD 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.DVD Review: One of my favorite films!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is a gigantic, successful production on the order of "Gone with the Wind" --- but completely, totally different. There's no Clark Gable, and no Vivien Leigh. But there is a story here, which in the end strikes me as much more compelling, much more revealing of the nature of human love.
The entrancing story of "The Children of Paradise" is filmed in the theaters --- and, especially "Crime Boulevard" in front of the theaters. The main female character is Garance (Arletty), a former "courtesan" --- actually hard to describe her, except that she is beautiful and very kind. The main male character is the mime Baptiste, played by Jean-Louis Barrault, who is madly in love with Garance.
By the end of this film, Baptiste's cries of "Garance! Garance!" may remind you of Scarlett's cries of "Ashley! Ashley!"
Both of them unforgettable screen classics. I think the French one has a little more depth of character, but it's up to you!
DO NOT MISS THIS FILM!!! IT IS GREAT!!!
DVD Review: Most overrated film in history?
Summary: 1 Stars
I'm sorry, but this film has little to recommend: it's way too long, terribly over-acted, has French mimes, and one especially can't care at all for the fate of the self-centered characters. I kept hoping someone would simply murder all the main characters in a fit of bored rage! and bad mimes bring out the homicidal rage in nearly all Americans, with good reason.
It's gets a star for the crowd scenes, very well faked, not staged looking like the comparable Gone with the Wind (also a terribly overblown and boring soap opera.) Good reviews rave about "the trouble it had being filmed in occupied France" -- so, does that make every film made in occupied countries better? The only good actor in the film is Arletty, and even she seems to smirk at the inane "dialogue of love", which is totally unbelievable at all times. If the French are truly like this, no wonder they lost every modern war! The only other plus goes to the fine Criterion print: I hear that it's a major improvement over the theatrical or VHS versions, but that still won't fix the boring plot, the length, the cutesy mimes, or the over-acting. It's too bad they just did't film a Dickens novel with the same crew.
Description 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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