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Children of Paradise

France, 1945, 190 mins, Laserdiscs
Director: Marcel Carné
Cast: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcel Herrand, Arletty


The high-water mark of the Golden Age of French cinema. This is the movie that is routinely ranked number one of all time in surveys of French film critics of French movies. Written under the German occupation of France, and produced with the sanction of occupation censors, this is classic cinema: a moment in time and in the history of the imagination, captured with extraordinary visual richness and bravura performances. No short to follow; however, a brief intermission seperates the film's two parts.

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