Michael Peyser on CHILDREN OF PARADISE

3,937 views · Published 28 January 2014 · 4:24 · Indexed 29 September 2026

Channel: Trailers From Hell · 2014 · Film & Animation

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Positioned in this American trailer as the French answer to Gone With the Wind, Marcel Carne's two-part,three hour meditation on the 19th century theater world (paradis is the name for the gallery, the second balcony) was voted Best Film Ever in a poll of Gallic critics and celebrities in 1995. Nonetheless it is not widely‚ known today, despite a sterling restored DVD release from Criterion in 2002. Michael Peyser details the astonishing production history of‚ this fact-based classic shot with much difficulty during the German occupation of France, and‚ which was nearly released as two separate films.

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