French movies

1945 French film directed by Marcel Carné

For other uses, see Children of Paradise (disambiguation).

Children of Paradise (French: Les Enfants du Paradis, [lez‿ɑ̃fɑ̃dypaʁadi]) is a two-part French romantic drama film by Marcel Carné, produced under war conditions in 1943, 1944, and early 1945 in both Vichy France and Occupied France.

Set in the theatrical world of 1830s Paris, it tells the story of a courtesan and four men—a mime, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat—who love her in entirely different ways.

CHILDREN OF PARADISE, THE (WORLD TITLES COLLECTION) - Vimeo

It has received universal critical acclaim. "I would give up all my films to have directed Les Enfants du Paradis", said nouvelle vague director François Truffaut. In Truman Capote's The Duke in His Domain (1957), actor Marlon Brando called it "maybe the best movie ever made".^[2][3] Its original American trailer positioned it as the French answer to Gone With the Wind (1939),^[4] an opinion shared