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UK Mall 1 - Les Enfants Du Paradis [1945]
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Manufacturer: Artificial Eye
Starring: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir, MarÃa Casares
Directed By: Marcel Carné
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5099990082528
Format: Black & White
Label: Artificial Eye
Manufacturer: Artificial Eye
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Artificial Eye
Release Date: 1993-10-11
Running Time: 181
Studio: Artificial Eye
Theatrical Release Date: 1946-11-15
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Summary: the most beautiful film of all time...
Comment: Simply lovely. A must-watch film and one of my all time favourites. It may be long, black & white, old and subtitled (to the non French speakers) but please don't let any of these put you off. It's a masterpiece!
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Summary: Love is not so simple in this classic of world cinema
Comment: If you like Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables', then this film should appeal especially on a Sunday afternoon. It's a film with a brilliant, elaborate plot (particularly part 1) with the second part, set a few years later, providing the emotional culmination to Garance & Baptiste's doomed love. It is filled with an array of memorable characters - aristocrats, cut-throats, bombastic actors with big egos, the rag clothes man, Jericho, and a blind beggar who can see - spanning the broad canvas of Paris street scenes though it remains still small enough for lovers to encounter one other again.
The film revolves around Garance, the cool seductive beauty who reveals only part of herself (like the vaudeville act shown at the very beginning)and the four very different men who desire her. I think perceptive reviewers below have already pointed out how each represents a particular male aspect desiring to possess Garance completely with perhaps only Baptiste, the dreamer, able to finally offer the simple love she wishes to possess.
However, happiness, as ever, proves brief and illusory. The final scenes are great where Baptiste, the silent mime artist, cannot hide his true feelings from the tragic figure of his long-suffering wife, Natalie, as he calls out for Garance and his final desperate search amidst the throng of the carnival crowd.
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Summary: A French masterpiece.
Comment: Simply the greatest French Film of all time. Made in Paris whilst Paris was still under Nazi occupation this quite beautiful Film is wonderfully cast, acted, written and directed. Many great French films can lay claim to being the greatest, but Les Enfants Du Paradis is for me the greatest of all time because it is the richest, most humane & powerful. Let the human emotions of the French Theatre it is set in and around wash over you as you marvel at the performances and the characters journey's. I can't tell you too much as that would be give away what is a gift of a Film. If you like, love or are curious about French cinema, start with this Film and you'll not be disappointed.
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Summary: Glorious.
Comment: Full of pathos,love, and tragedy yet with moments of humour. Wonderfully drawn characters, finely acted against the vibrant backdrop of 19th century French theatre and street-life. Visually very beautiful, you will never tire of this one and will always find something new to appreciate.Well worth the investment.
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Summary: Sublime
Comment: A film that repays repeated viewings - as near perfect as a movie can get.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: the most beautiful film of all time...
Comment: Simply lovely. A must-watch film and one of my all time favourites. It may be long, black & white, old and subtitled (to the non French speakers) but please don't let any of these put you off. It's a masterpiece!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Love is not so simple in this classic of world cinema
Comment: If you like Victor Hugo's 'Les Miserables', then this film should appeal especially on a Sunday afternoon. It's a film with a brilliant, elaborate plot (particularly part 1) with the second part, set a few years later, providing the emotional culmination to Garance & Baptiste's doomed love. It is filled with an array of memorable characters - aristocrats, cut-throats, bombastic actors with big egos, the rag clothes man, Jericho, and a blind beggar who can see - spanning the broad canvas of Paris street scenes though it remains still small enough for lovers to encounter one other again.
The film revolves around Garance, the cool seductive beauty who reveals only part of herself (like the vaudeville act shown at the very beginning)and the four very different men who desire her. I think perceptive reviewers below have already pointed out how each represents a particular male aspect desiring to possess Garance completely with perhaps only Baptiste, the dreamer, able to finally offer the simple love she wishes to possess.
However, happiness, as ever, proves brief and illusory. The final scenes are great where Baptiste, the silent mime artist, cannot hide his true feelings from the tragic figure of his long-suffering wife, Natalie, as he calls out for Garance and his final desperate search amidst the throng of the carnival crowd.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A French masterpiece.
Comment: Simply the greatest French Film of all time. Made in Paris whilst Paris was still under Nazi occupation this quite beautiful Film is wonderfully cast, acted, written and directed. Many great French films can lay claim to being the greatest, but Les Enfants Du Paradis is for me the greatest of all time because it is the richest, most humane & powerful. Let the human emotions of the French Theatre it is set in and around wash over you as you marvel at the performances and the characters journey's. I can't tell you too much as that would be give away what is a gift of a Film. If you like, love or are curious about French cinema, start with this Film and you'll not be disappointed.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Glorious.
Comment: Full of pathos,love, and tragedy yet with moments of humour. Wonderfully drawn characters, finely acted against the vibrant backdrop of 19th century French theatre and street-life. Visually very beautiful, you will never tire of this one and will always find something new to appreciate.Well worth the investment.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Sublime
Comment: A film that repays repeated viewings - as near perfect as a movie can get.
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