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Playing as part of Academy's TAKE THE STAGE! Film Festival playing May 31 - June 29 2024, highlighting the some of the best classic films set in the dizzying, whirlwind world of the theatre!Directed by Marcel Carné
Starring Arletty ., Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Marcel Herrand, Pierre Renoir, María Casares
Rated PG
190 minutes
Includes 10 minute intermission.
Poetic realism reached sublime heights with CHILDREN OF PARADISE, widely considered one of the greatest French films of all time. This nimble depiction of nineteenth-century Paris’s theatrical demimonde, filmed during World War II, follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault, in a longing-suffused performance for the ages). With sensitivity and dramatic élan, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert resurrect a world teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers. And thanks to a major new restoration, this iconic classic looks and sounds richer and more detailed than ever.
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