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Les Enfants du Paradis | Children of Paradise (1945) by Marcel Carné
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- Cannesversations
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- Apr 4, 2024
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- 7685
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Summary
This week, Patrick and Eliana discuss Marcel Carné’s 1945 film Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise), which appeared in the 2011 Cannes Classics section. Filmed during the Nazi Occupation of France and released as the first film following its liberation, the film has continued to charm audiences in France and abroad with its gorgeous set design, iconic actors, and wit-infused characters, a result of the core collaboration between set designer Alexandre Trauner, screenwriter Jacques Prevert, and composer Joseph Kosma. Spectatorship and performance are at the heart of this farcical and bittersweet film, where four men vie for the radiant yet fugacious Garance as she flits between them, and they amongst themselves on the grand Boulevard du ‘Crime.’ It is a film about action and re-action, the verbal and the non-verbal, in a city too small for undying dreams. Resources: Affron, Mirella Jona. " Les Enfants Du Paradis : Play of Genres." Cinema Journal , vol. 18, no. 1, 1978, pp. JSTOR . Ebert, Roger. “ Children of Paradise. ” RogerEbert.com , Forbes, Jill. Les Enfants Du Paradis , British Film Institute, 1997. Mancini, Marc. " Prevert: Poetry in Motion Pictures. " Film Comment , vol. 17, no. 6, 1981, pp. 34-37. JSTOR . Nye, Edward. Deburau. Pierrot, Mime, and Culture , Routledge, 2022. Picherit, Hervé. “A Strange Child of Paradise: The Artistry of Arletty’s “Self” in Les enfants du paradis.” Camera Obscura, Vol. 32, No. 1, Duke University Press, 2017. Reid, Tina. “ Marcel Carné on Children of Paradise: Forty-Five Years Late r” The Criterion Collection, 20 Sept. 2012, Sadoul, Georges. " The Postwar French Cinema. " Hollywood Quarterly , vol. 4, no. 3, 1950, pp. JSTOR . Sellier Geneviève. « Les Enfants du paradis dans le cinéma de l'Occupation.” 1895, revue d'histoire…