Children of Paradise (Ciné-Theatre)

Show & Culture

In the popular Paris of 1840, a mime, a flower-woman, an actor, a philosophical assassin, and a disappointed lover all search for themselves between the stage and the street, yet none truly find themselves… “Les Enfants du Paradis is the pinnacle of the Carné/Prévert collaboration, with a filmmaker who could serve the text and a poet who understood cinema itself. Rarely have dialogues attained such visual intensity.” (Libération) “Carné’s France, unlike the fiddle-dee-dee of Victor Fleming’s cotton pickin’ South, is a poetic realist’s wonderland, a gateway to a dreamworld where human laws are mere judicial errors and love is so painful to hold onto it can only be savored in the moment.” (Slant Magazine)