Voted 'The Best French Film ever made' by the French Film Academy. Les Enfants du Paradis is a film of such dazzling proportions it has been labelled the French Gone With The Wind.Set amidst the glittering theatre world of 19th century Paris, the story revoles around the beautiful and free-spirted courtesan, Garanace, and the four men who compete for her affections; a mime-artist, an actor, an aristocrat and a criminal. As the melodrama unfolds, we are treated to one of cinema's greatest love stories, a captivating tale of passion, deception and murder.
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Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Marcel Carne's LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS (CHILDREN OF PARADISE) concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty). Each loves Garance in his own fashion, but only the intentions of sensitive mime-actor Deburau (Jean-Louis Barrault) are entirely honorable; as a result, it is he who suffers most, hurdling one obstacle after another in pursuit of an evidently unattainable goal.
Classic French drama following the ill-fated love of a mime artist and a sometime actress in 1840s Paris. When Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) comes to the rescue of Garance (Arletty) when she is falsely accused of shoplifting, it is the beginning of an obsession that will have a profound effect on his life. Unhappily for Baptiste, the beautiful Garance has three equally determined suitors: Fréderick (Pierre Brasseur), an actor, Pierre François (Marcel Herrand), a thief, and the aristocratic Édouard (Louis Salou). The lives of the four men become intertwined as they pursue Garance, with increasingly dangerous consequences for all...
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