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Criterion LaserDiscs Children of Paradise Criterion #84 Rare Vintage LaserDisc Drama Foreign

Children of Paradise Criterion #84 Rare Vintage LaserDisc Drama Foreign

High-Water Mark of the Golden Age of French Cinema

Children of Paradise Criterion #84 Rare Vintage LaserDisc Drama Foreign

High-Water Mark of the Golden Age of French Cinema

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Children of Paradise Criterion #84 Rare Vintage LaserDisc Drama Foreign

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Arletty and Jean-Louis Barrault in... Marcel Carné's...

The Children of Paradise

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1249L )
(1.33:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
French Language with English Subtitles
Supplement Introduction
Audio Commentary by Producer Brian Stonehill
Interview with Director Marcel Carné Conducted Specifically for this Disc - French
Carné (Director) and Prévert (Screenplay) Filmography and Bibliography
Film Treatment in English and French
Recreation In and Around "Children of Pardise"

The Children of Paradise
1945 - 189 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
A romantic epic loosely based on the life of Baptiste Debureau, a 19th century mime idolized for his portrayal of the wistful, white-face clown Pierrot. The film won critical acclaim for its faithful recreation of Parisian street theater, as well as for Jean-Louis Barrault's brilliant performance as Debureau. 
  Above all, it is a love story, focusing on Debureau's passion for the beautiful Garance -- a passion for which he would risk everything... including his own marriage.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Even in 1945, Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Prevert's screenplay concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty). Each loves Garance in his own fashion, but only the intentions of sensitive mime-actor Deburau (Jean-Louis Barrault) are entirely honorable; as a result, it is he who suffers most, hurdling one obstacle after another in pursuit of an evidently unattainable goal. In the stylized fashion of 19th-century French drama, many grand passions are spent during the film's totally absorbing 195 minutes. Amazingly, the film was produced over a two-year period in virtual secrecy, without the knowledge of the Nazis then occupying France, who would surely have arrested several of the cast and production staff members (including Prevert) for their activities in the Resistance. Children of Paradise has gone on to become one of the great romantic classics of international cinema. --- Hal Erickson

Shooting secretly over a two-year period during the German Occupation of France, director Marcel Carne and writer Jacques Prevert produced their grandest masterwork. In the 19th century Paris theater world, life and performance become interchangeable, as the complex romantic entanglements of Arletty's inscrutable Garance with superficial actor Frederick, a wealthy count, and especially Jean-Louis Barrault's sensitive mime Baptiste become fodder for the masses crowding the "Street of Crimes" and the theater's uppermost balcony. Structured as two intricate "acts" complete with curtains rising and falling, the film reveals the creative power of idealized love in Baptiste's exquisite mimes of his fateful passion for Garance, even as the ebb and flow of human behavior thwarts that ideal. Magnificently recreating the period and its tradition of popular entertainment, Les Enfants du Paradis was released to international postwar acclaim for its spectacular beauty and excellent acting, while Prevert's intelligent script was nominated for a screenplay Oscar. Even as Carne fell out of artistic favor after the 1940s, Les Enfants du Paradis's glorious visuals transcended its association with the maligned French "Tradition of Quality," maintaining its legacy as Carne and Prevert's crowning achievement. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for The Children of Paradise

Arletty - Garance
Jean-Louis Barrault - Baptiste Deburau
Pierre Brasseur - Frederick Lemaitre
Marcel Herrand - Lacenaire
Albert Remy - Scarpia Barigni
Pierre Renoir - Jericho
Maria Casares - Nathalie
Fabien Loris - Avril
Etienne Decroux - Anselme Deburau
Louis Salou - Count Edward de Monteray
Jane Marken [Jeanne] - Madame Hermine
Pierre Palau - Director
Gaston Modot - The Blind
Paul Frankeur - Inspector of Police
Auguste Boverio - First Author
Marcel Peres - Director at "Funambules"
Jean Carmet
Robert Dhery - Celestin
Paul Demange - Second Author
Guy Favieres - Debt Collector
Jacques Castelot - Georges
Jean Lanier - Iago
Leon Larive - Stage Doorman at "Funambules"

Crew for The Children of Paradise

Marcel Carne - Director
Fred Orain - Producer
Jacques Prevert - Screenwriter
Marc Fossard - Cinematographer
Roger Hubert - Cinematographer
Joseph Kosma - Composer (Music Score)
George Mouque - Composer (Music Score)
Maurice Thiriet - Composer (Music Score)
Madeleine Bonin - Editor
Henri Rust - Editor
Leon Barsacq - Art Director
R. Cabutti - Art Director
Alexandre Trauner - Art Director
Mayo - Costume Designer

Awards for The Children of Paradise

Best Original Screenplay (nom) Jacques Prevert 1946 Academy
Film Presented Marcel Carne 1946 Venice International Film Festival
Special Mention by the International Delegation Marcel Carne 1946 Venice International Film Festival

Feature Details

Title: The Children of Paradise
Feature Release Date: 1945
Genre: Drama
Color: Black and White
Runtime: 189 Minutes
Chapters: 48
Picture: Academy Ratio
Ratio: 1.33:1
Playback Format: CLV+CAV

IMDB Info...

Technical Details

LD Release Date: 24 Oct 1991
Catalog Number: CC1249L
UPC: 715515002097
ISBN: 1-55940-125-7
Manufacturer: Kuraray
Manufacturer 2: 3M or Imation
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 4
Cover: Gatefold Jacket
Spoken Language: French
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1249L
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Near-Mint LaserDiscs and Gatefold Jacket with several compressed corners

Arletty and Jean-Louis Barrault in... Marcel Carné's...

The Children of Paradise

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1249L )
(1.33:1) (4 Sides) (CLV+CAV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
French Language with English Subtitles
Supplement Introduction
Audio Commentary by Producer Brian Stonehill
Interview with Director Marcel Carné Conducted Specifically for this Disc - French
Carné (Director) and Prévert (Screenplay) Filmography and Bibliography
Film Treatment in English and French
Recreation In and Around "Children of Pardise"

The Children of Paradise
1945 - 189 min. - Black and White
Genre: Drama

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
A romantic epic loosely based on the life of Baptiste Debureau, a 19th century mime idolized for his portrayal of the wistful, white-face clown Pierrot. The film won critical acclaim for its faithful recreation of Parisian street theater, as well as for Jean-Louis Barrault's brilliant performance as Debureau. 
  Above all, it is a love story, focusing on Debureau's passion for the beautiful Garance -- a passion for which he would risk everything... including his own marriage.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Even in 1945, Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise was regarded as an old-fashioned film. Set in the Parisian theatrical world of the 1840s, Jacques Prevert's screenplay concerns four men in love with the mysterious Garance (Arletty). Each loves Garance in his own fashion, but only the intentions of sensitive mime-actor Deburau (Jean-Louis Barrault) are entirely honorable; as a result, it is he who suffers most, hurdling one obstacle after another in pursuit of an evidently unattainable goal. In the stylized fashion of 19th-century French drama, many grand passions are spent during the film's totally absorbing 195 minutes. Amazingly, the film was produced over a two-year period in virtual secrecy, without the knowledge of the Nazis then occupying France, who would surely have arrested several of the cast and production staff members (including Prevert) for their activities in the Resistance. Children of Paradise has gone on to become one of the great romantic classics of international cinema. --- Hal Erickson

Shooting secretly over a two-year period during the German Occupation of France, director Marcel Carne and writer Jacques Prevert produced their grandest masterwork. In the 19th century Paris theater world, life and performance become interchangeable, as the complex romantic entanglements of Arletty's inscrutable Garance with superficial actor Frederick, a wealthy count, and especially Jean-Louis Barrault's sensitive mime Baptiste become fodder for the masses crowding the "Street of Crimes" and the theater's uppermost balcony. Structured as two intricate "acts" complete with curtains rising and falling, the film reveals the creative power of idealized love in Baptiste's exquisite mimes of his fateful passion for Garance, even as the ebb and flow of human behavior thwarts that ideal. Magnificently recreating the period and its tradition of popular entertainment, Les Enfants du Paradis was released to international postwar acclaim for its spectacular beauty and excellent acting, while Prevert's intelligent script was nominated for a screenplay Oscar. Even as Carne fell out of artistic favor after the 1940s, Les Enfants du Paradis's glorious visuals transcended its association with the maligned French "Tradition of Quality," maintaining its legacy as Carne and Prevert's crowning achievement. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for The Children of Paradise

Arletty - Garance
Jean-Louis Barrault - Baptiste Deburau
Pierre Brasseur - Frederick Lemaitre
Marcel Herrand - Lacenaire
Albert Remy - Scarpia Barigni
Pierre Renoir - Jericho
Maria Casares - Nathalie
Fabien Loris - Avril
Etienne Decroux - Anselme Deburau
Louis Salou - Count Edward de Monteray
Jane Marken [Jeanne] - Madame Hermine
Pierre Palau - Director
Gaston Modot - The Blind
Paul Frankeur - Inspector of Police
Auguste Boverio - First Author
Marcel Peres - Director at "Funambules"
Jean Carmet
Robert Dhery - Celestin
Paul Demange - Second Author
Guy Favieres - Debt Collector
Jacques Castelot - Georges
Jean Lanier - Iago
Leon Larive - Stage Doorman at "Funambules"

Crew for The Children of Paradise

Marcel Carne - Director
Fred Orain - Producer
Jacques Prevert - Screenwriter
Marc Fossard - Cinematographer
Roger Hubert - Cinematographer
Joseph Kosma - Composer (Music Score)
George Mouque - Composer (Music Score)
Maurice Thiriet - Composer (Music Score)
Madeleine Bonin - Editor
Henri Rust - Editor
Leon Barsacq - Art Director
R. Cabutti - Art Director
Alexandre Trauner - Art Director
Mayo - Costume Designer

Awards for The Children of Paradise

Best Original Screenplay (nom) Jacques Prevert 1946 Academy
Film Presented Marcel Carne 1946 Venice International Film Festival
Special Mention by the International Delegation Marcel Carne 1946 Venice International Film Festival

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