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    The Children of Paradise
    a.k.a. Les Enfants du Paradis Director: Marcel Carné Cast: Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Herrand

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    • DVD Release Date: 01/22/2002
    • Original Release: 1945
    • Rating: Rated PG
    • Sales Rank: 15,719
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    New digital transfer; Commentary by film scholars Brian Stonehill and Charles Affron; Video introduction by director Terry Gilliam; Restoration demonstration; New and improved English subtitle translation; Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition; Jacques Prévert's film treatment; Production designs by Alexandre Trauner; Production stills gallery; Filmographies for Marcel Carné and Jacques Prévert; U.S. theatrical trailer; 26-page booklet, including transcribed excerpts from Brian Stonehill's 1990 interview with Marcel Carné, cast biographies, and an essay by film historian Peter Cowie

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    Scene Index

    Side #1 -- Disc One
    1. Opening Titles [3:31]
    2. "The Boulevard of Crime" [5:15]
    3. Lacenaire & His Guardian Angel [6:27]
    4. Baptiste Rescues Garance [6:15]
    5. Backstage at Les Funambules [5:24]
    6. Chaos Onstage [6:38]
    7. Baptiste & Nathalie [3:42]
    8. Frédérick Lemaître [2:22]
    9. At Madame Hermine's [2:48]
    10. Baptiste & the Blind Man [2:49]
    11. At the Rouge Gorge [7:37]
    12. Baptiste Fights Back [4:28]
    13. "Love Is So Simple" [4:47]
    14. Baptiste Loses His Nerve [2:55]
    15. "Paris Is Small..." [2:08]
    16. Onstage at Les Funambules [5:48]
    17. Nathalie Speaks [4:44]
    18. Hope Remains [2:55]
    19. Frédérick & Garance [4:16]
    20. The Court de Montray [4:45]
    21. A Man Full of Hate [3:46]
    22. Criminals at Work [2:30]
    23. A Judicial Error [5:17]
    24. Color Bars [:20]
    1. Introduction
    2. Garance/Frédérick
    3. Lacenaire/Jéricho
    4. Baptiste
    5. Backstage World
    6. Appetite for Diversion
    7. Poetic Realism
    8. Frédérick's Passion
    9. Shameless Flirting
    10. Carné & Prévert
    11. Paradox & Hierarchy
    12. A Cubist Film
    13. Head & Heart
    14. Two Kinds of Love
    15. From Flowers to Astronomy
    16. A Sophisticated Juggling Act
    17. Wounds
    18. A Circular Dance
    19. Love the Whole World Over
    20. The Language of Flowers
    21. Broken Hearts
    22. Misinformation
    23. An Object of Art
    24. Color Bars
    Side #2 -- Disc Two
    1. Opening Titles Repeated [3:43]
    2. Summary of Part One [1:02]
    3. "The Man in White" [4:59]
    4. Rehearsing With the Authors [4:10]
    5. Opening Night Improvisation [5:21]
    6. Frédérick Meets Lacenaire [5:39]
    7. Duel [1:55]
    8. Garance Has Changed [4:16]
    9. Baptiste Performs [4:35]
    10. Frédérick Is Jealous [3:03]
    11. Backstage Reunion [4:55]
    12. "Yes, I'm All Alone" [2:47]
    13. A Visit From Lacenaire [7:04]
    14. Garance & the Count [4:09]
    15. Baptiste Hides From the World [4:24]
    16. Frédérick as Othello [2:13]
    17. Baptiste & Garance Reunited [4:57]
    18. "Jealousy Belongs to All" [5:44]
    19. Garance Was Right [1:44]
    20. At the Bath [3:47]
    21. Nathalie Intervenes [5:31]
    22. Lost in the Carnival [2:52]
    23. Color Bars [:19]
    1. A Film in Two Parts
    2. Prévert's Creative Chronology
    3. Frédérick's Fame
    4. French Romanticism
    5. Reversals & Inventions
    6. A Real Drama
    7. Death Off-Screen
    8. Garance's Formality
    9. Pierrot & the Rag Man
    10. Meeting of Life & Art
    11. Robert Le Vigan/Maria Casarès
    12. Nathalie's Ploy
    13. Power Games & Private Spaces
    14. Alienated Lovers
    15. Baptiste's Suffering
    16. Shakespeare
    17. Time Has Stood Still
    18. "The Plots Are All the Same"
    19. Poetic Realism
    20. Exoticism & Murder
    21. Lovers Interrupted
    22. Final Ironies
    23. Color Bars

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    Editorial Reviews

    Even in 1945, Marcel Carné's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Prévert's screenplay 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. In the stylized fashion of 19th-century French drama, many grand passions are spent during the film's totally absorbing 195 minutes. Amazingly, the film was produced over a two-year period in virtual secrecy, without the knowledge of the Nazis then occupying France, who would surely have arrested several of the cast and production staff members (including Prévert) for their activities in the Resistance. Children of Paradise has gone on to become one of the great romantic classics of international cinema. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    August 12, 2003: I've seen this masterwork several times, the last at a small art-house in San Franciso where the audience was comprised of the very youg -- from late teens to early 20s. I almost walked out, at that point, because I was afraid they wouldn't ''get it.'' Well, they sat there for more than three hours obviously entranced by this magical, wonderful film that for years was considered, by a survey of international critics, as the greatest movie ever