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Sep 20, 2012 · Marcel Carné: I shot the film during World War II. I was very bold then, and thinking about it now, it was madness to make such a film in a country lacking the bare necessities. Anyway, I started working on Children of Paradise, and the producer told me that, given the enormous success of Les visiteurs du soir—it had been a big hit at the ...
Marcel Albert Carné (French: [maʁsɛl albɛʁ kaʁne]; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include Port of Shadows (1938), Le Jour Se Lève (1939), Les Visiteurs du Soir (1942) and Children of Paradise (1945); the latter has been cited as one of the great films of all time.
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Dec 30, 2019 · Carné. All three of Carné’s archiveable films land in the top 100 of their respective decade. There isn’t much beyond that as far as resume. I’ll get to it below but the disconnect I have with the critical consensus on Children of Paradise is reason why Carné has fallen to the #132 slot here. Best film: Children of Paradise. Immaculately curated production design—Carné successfully ...
After the war, Marcel Carné struggled to remain in sympathy with the cinemagoing public and his career was soon locked on a downwards trajectory. It all started to go wrong with Les Portes de la nuit (1946), a return to the poetic realism of the late 1930s that was now ill-received by audiences who wanted to escape from the penury of post-war ...
Jan 4, 2019 · This chapter explores Marcel Carné's involvement with the film industry under German occupation, and his creation of two classics, before moving on to consider his first postwar film, Les Portes de la nuit, which deals with the aftermath of war. It challenges the usual break that is assumed between Carné's wartime films and his post-Liberation work, while exploring his complex engagement ...
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Marcel Carné (born August 18, 1906, Paris, France—died October 31, 1996, Clamart, near Paris) was a motion-picture director noted for the poetic realism of his pessimistic dramas. He led the French cinema revival of the late 1930s. After holding various jobs, Carné joined the director Jacques Feyder as an assistant in 1928, and he also ...
Born in Paris, France, the son of a cabinet maker whose wife died when their son was five, Marcel Carné began his career as a film critic, becoming editor of the weekly publication, Hebdo-Films, and working for Cinémagazine and Cinémonde between 1929 and 1933. In the same period he worked in silent film as a camera assistant with director Jacques Feyder. By age 25, Carné had already ...
