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2012
Not Rated
Tricolore
3 h 9 m

2012
Not Rated
Tricolore
3 h 9 m

Summary Children of Paradise is the tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert resurrect the tumultuous world of nineteenth-century Paris, teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers. (Janus Films)

Directed By: Marcel Carné

Written By: Jacques Prévert

2012
Not Rated
Tricolore
3 h 9 m

2012
Not Rated
Tricolore
3 h 9 m

Children of Paradise (1945)

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews

96

User Score Generally Favorable Based on 21 User Ratings

8.0

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Summary Children of Paradise is the tale of a woman loved by four different men. Deftly entwining theater, literature, music, and design, director Marcel Carné and screenwriter Jacques Prévert resurrect the tumultuous world of nineteenth-century Paris, teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans, pimps and seers. (Janus Films)

Directed By: Marcel Carné

Written By: Jacques Prévert

Where to Watch

Critic Reviews

Metascore

Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews

95% Positive
19 Reviews

5% Mixed
1 Review

0% Negative
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Critic Reviews

Metascore

Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews

95% Positive
19 Reviews

5% Mixed
1 Review

0% Negative
0 Reviews

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Negative Reviews

Orlando Sentinel

Apr 16, 2020

This lush classic is funny, dramatic, thought-provoking and always, always, always romantic. [20 Sep 1991, p.43]

By Jay Boyar FULL REVIEW

Apr 16, 2020

The writing is utterly involving; with lines like tiny, imagist poems. A rich and delicious movie treat.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

Apr 16, 2020

An unmitigated masterpiece from start to finish, Carné’s epic love story through Parisian theatreland feels as fresh and effervescent today as it must have done on its initial release, brimming with perfectly-sculpted heroes, villains and wildly imaginative set-pieces.

By Daniel Green FULL REVIEW

Apr 16, 2020

A breathtaking study of the relationships between life and theater, mime and tragedy, the real and the imagined, sound and silence. It runs 187 minutes, and it's worth every one of them.

The Observer (UK)

Apr 16, 2020

The movie's final parting sequence, where Arletty rides away in a coach and Barrault is inexorably swept in the opposite direction by a swirling crowd, is among the peaks of romantic cinema.

Apr 16, 2020

Carné’s camera records rather than amplifies the emotions: you can’t help but wonder what magic a René Clair, a Max Ophüls or a Jean Renoir would have found in this material. Its clamorous closing shot – which suggests, but doesn’t show, tragedy – is one of the greatest in all cinema.

Apr 16, 2020

This ambitious French film turns out to be a strange mixture of the beautiful, the esoteric and the downright dull. Some startling flashes of inspired mimicry and fresh Gallic humor are wedded to the not un-Hollywoodian concept of the femme fatale who, willy-nilly in this instance, leads men to their ruin in an uneven performance of writing and direction.

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User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 21 User Ratings

81% Positive
17 Ratings

10% Mixed
2 Ratings

10% Negative
2 Ratings

User Reviews

User Score

Generally Favorable Based on 21 User Ratings

81% Positive
17 Ratings

10% Mixed
2 Ratings

10% Negative
2 Ratings

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Details

Production Company Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma

Release Date Mar 9, 2012

Duration 3 h 9 m

Rating Not Rated

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Tagline AT LAST! The Celebrated French Film

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Awards

Academy Awards, USA

• 1 Nomination

Venice Film Festival

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Online Film & Television Association

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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