La Grande Illusion
1938
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Jan 6, 2002 · Now streaming on: Powered by JustWatch. All discussions of Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise begin with the miracle of its making. Named at Cannes as the greatest French film of all time, costing more than any French film before it, Les Enfants du Paradis was shot in Paris and Nice during the Nazi occupation and released in 1945.
98% Tomatometer 43 Reviews 95% Audience Score 5,000+ Ratings In this expansive drama, the lovely and enigmatic Parisian actress Garance (Arletty) draws the attention of various men in her orbit...
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Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 23, 2022. Alberto Abuín Espinof. 'Children of Paradise' is a complete fresco from a time in the Gallic country, in which beat mixed feelings, eternal...
Jul 20, 2022 · Children of Paradise by Camilla Grudova review – loner life at a crumbling cinema. A magnificently spiky commentary on the detrimental nature of work hierarchies and job instability....
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- Picture 4/10
- Audio 6/10
- Extras 8/10
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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 crimin...
Criterion presents Marcel Carné’s Children of Paradisein two parts on the same dual-layer disc of this two-disc set. The film is given a new 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer from the new 2011 4k restoration of the film and is presented in its original aspect ratio of about 1.37:1. I’m not going to offer anything new to what has already been said...
The audio, presented in linear PCM mono, fairs a bit better. It sounds clean, with easy to hear dialogue and decent music. But the age still limits it and it sounds a bit hollow and tinny, especially at the beginning. Still, the clean-up is more substantial in comparison to the previous DVD, where the tininess was far worse, and the background nois...
Criterion ports over most of the supplements from their previous 2-disc release, starting with two audio commentariesfeaturing film scholars Brian Stonehill and Charles Affron. Stonehill’s plays over the first part of the film and he talks more about the actual production and the French film industry as it was during the German. He also gets into t...
Feature-wise it’s a nice edition, and the audio does sound better in comparison to the older DVD. But the video is, simply put, bizarre. I don’t know what to make of it: everything looks waxy or, at its very worst, almost computer generated. This is all an incredible shame as it looks like the clean-up job was wonderful. If the digital manipulation...
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).
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 98% of 42 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; with an average rating of 9.2/10. The site's consensus reads: "Strong performances abound, and Carne's wit and grace are evident in this masterful (if long) French epic." [21]
