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Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradise)
VHS
195 minutes
1945
PN1997 .E631 1990
Set in the theater district of early 19th-century Paris, Children of Paradise re-creates a glittering world of backstage life. Garance, a stunning and elusive courtesan, is loved by four men - the mime Debureau, the ambitious actor Lemaitre, the nihilistic villian Lacenaire, and the snobbish aristocrat Monteray. Prevert's screenplay entwines them all in a web of intrigue and desire that has been called "the finest work ... ever composed for the screen" (The Washington Post). Filmed during the Nazi Occupation, this sweeping romantic epic triumphantly belongs among the milestones of cinema. Unabridged, fully restored, with new translation and subtitles.
French with English subtitles.
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