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Children of Paradise
French film directed by Marcel Carné
For other uses, see Children of Paradise (disambiguation).
Children of Paradise (French: Les Enfants du Paradis, [lez‿ɑ̃fɑ̃dypaʁadi]) is a two-part French romantic drama film by Marcel Carné, produced under war conditions in , , and early in both Vichy France and Occupied France. Set in the theatrical world of s Paris, it tells the story of a courtesan and four men—a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat—who love her in entirely different ways.
It has received universal critical acclaim. "I would give up all my films to have directed Les Enfants du Paradis", said nouvelle vague director François Truffaut. In Truman Capote's The Duke in His Domain (), actor Marlon Brando called it "maybe the best movie ever made".[2][3] Its original American trailer positioned it as the French answer to Gone With the Wind (),[4] an opinion shared by critic David Shipman.[ • NYC Weekend Watch: I-Be Area, Frederick Wiseman, Picnic at Hanging Rock & More • All movie critics are asked two inevitable questions: (1) &#;How many movies do you see in a week?&#; and (2) &#;What&#;s the greatest film of all time?&#; Gene Siskel found that it didn&#;t matter what his reply to (1) was: &#;I can say one or a dozen&#;it doesn&#;t matter. The real answer is between four and ten, but they don&#;t really care.&#; The answer to (2), as we all know, is &#;Citizen Kane.&#; When naming that film, I sometimes even joke, &#;That&#;s the official answer.&#; The most respected &#;best film&#; list in the world is the one the UK film magazine &#;Sight & Sound&#; runs every 10 years. They poll the world&#;s directors, critics, festival heads, archivists and others. Ever since , the top film has been &#;Kane.&#; &#;Citizen Kane&#; is arguably the most important film, for two reasons: It consolidated the film language up until and broke new ground in such areas as deep focus, complex sound, and narrative structure. The other reason is that it demons
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