Les Enfants Du Paradis (Re)
France 1945, 189 mins
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Arletty
Director: Marcel Carne
Starring: Pierre Brasseur, Arletty
Struck from an original negative, Marcel Carné's masterpiece LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS has been digitally remastered.
Shot in difficult conditions in the final years of the Nazi occupation, LES ENFANTS DU PARADIS is a lavish, intensely romantic evocation of an epoch with a cast of fictitious and historical characters thronging along the 'Boulevard du Crime' in the theatre district of 1840s Paris.
Among them are the star-struck Frédéric Lemaître, who learns his trade in burlesque but becomes the greatest classical actor of his day; the courtesan Garance (Arletty), loved by the mime artist Debureau; the supercilious Comte de Montrey; and the existentialist criminal Lacenaire.
