the Children of the paradise is a French film carried out by Marcel Carné, left in 1945.

Synopsis

Paris, 1828. In crowd presents on the Boulevard of the Crime, the MIME Baptiste Deburau, by his dumb testimony, saves the small Garance courtesan of a miscarriage of justice. It falls insane in love from there but cannot acknowledge to him while it itself is courted by Nathalie, the girl of the director. Garance is let allure by a young promising actor, Frédérick Lemaître. Baptist invites them to work all the three unit. Also subjugated by the beauty of Garance, the count Edouard de Montray does not hesitate to propose the marriage and his fortune to him. It pushes back its advances but, once again marked of complicity with his friend the gangster Lacenaire, it makes call using the count.

A few years later, Baptist, married to Nathalie, is the whooping-cough of the boulevards. He made mime a recognized and popular art. Frédérick, as for him, reached him also the celebrity, and dreams to be able to assemble Shakespeare. Garance, since partner with the count, returned to Paris and assists incognito with all the representations of Baptist. One day whereas it is presented to the residence of the count Montray, Lacenaire is obligingly but firmly gotten rid of it conceives a true humiliation of it and swears to be avenged by ridiculing it, it to what it arrives while benefitting from the meeting again from Garance and Baptiste. After their first and single night of love, Garance from goes away, with the despair of Baptist, retained by a crowd of pierrots of carnival.

Comments

The history is pressed on a gallery of characters either existed (Deburau, Frédérick Lemaître, Lacenaire), or having proven (the character of the rich person aristocrat attending all the representations of Deburau reported by chronicles of the time) or inspired (Montray approaching to the Foreign Minister of Louis-Philippe and the duke of Morny, half-brother of Napoleon III, Minister of Interior Department a few decades later).

The film, opened and closed by curtains, is also a Mise in abyme of the representation, declining the entertainment world of then, treating village fair, mime, MIME, Comédie, melodrama, Tragédie, Carnaval… the top is reached with the representation in film of “the inn of the Adrets”, authentic melodrama, reporting the adventures of an authentic gangster, Robert Macaire.

But the dissection goes beyond and touches as the social representation and the roles as each one endorses, mask and costume included/understood. The whole been used by a text as Jacques Prévert, which draws abundantly from its literary universe: Garance singing the evening in his room “I am as I am”, of the elements of his joinings in the slides of the theaters, etc

Data sheet

  • Title: Children of the paradise
  • English Title: Children off Paradise
  • Realization: Flesh-colored Marcel
  • Scenario and dialogs: Jacques Prévert
  • Production: Raymond Borderie, Fred Orain
  • Production company: Pathé cinema
  • Music: Maurice Thiriet, Joseph Kosma (under the pseudonym of Georges Mouqué)
  • Photography: Roger Hubert
  • Assembly: Madeleine Bonin and Henri Rust
  • Decorations: Alexandre Trauner, Leon Barsacq and Raymond Gabutti
  • Costumes: Mayo
  • Sound: Robert Teisseire
  • Direction of production: Louis Théron
  • Turning: from August 1943 in June 1944, the studios of Victorine (Nice)
  • Country of origin: France
  • Format: Black and white - 1,37:1 - Monophonic - 35mm
  • Kind: drama
  • Lasted: 205 minutes (lasted total announced in a source, but two times the total duration available in video assemble themselves at 182 minutes)
    • 1st time: the Boulevard of the crime , lasted 95 minutes
    • 2nd time: the white Man , lasted 87 minutes
  • Comings out date: March 9th 1945 (Paris, with the cinemas “Madeleine” and “Colisée”); November 15th 1946 (the United States)

Distribution

Around film

  • Turned during the Second world war, several participants brought their collaboration to film in clandestinity like Alexandre Trauner and Joseph Kosma (which is mentioned with the credits under cover of a pseudonym).
  • One can hear, on several occasions, celebrates it counterpart It is so simple, the love said by Arletty that in the musical assembly Home Movies inserted (left) of the type-setter Carlos d' Alessio dedicated to the cinema (album Home Movies preceded by the topics of the film India Song , 1 CD Song of World LDX 274864, 1987).

Distinctions

  • 1947 : Nomination for the Oscar of the cinema of the best original screenplay.
  • 1995 : the Children of the paradise was elected better film of all times by criticisms at the time of the centenary of the cinema.

Counterparts

  • Garance in Baptiste: It is so simple, the love.
  • Garance in Frédérick, then reciprocally: Paris is very small for those which like, like us, of such a great love.
  • Garance in Lacenaire: You have the too hot head for me, Pierre-François, and the too cold heart, I fear the drafts. I hold with my health, with my cheerfulness.
  • Frédérick with the count de Montray: Croyez, Sir, who I will be sensitive to the honor that you will make me by sending in the other world a man who is not yours.
  • Garance in Baptiste: I is not beautiful, I am alive, it is all.
  • Garance in Frédérick: I think, for example, that there exists a little everywhere in the world of in love which likes without saying it, or which says it with simple words, words of the every day. I find that beautiful.

See too

  • a long analysis of film on DVD Classik

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