Continuing my countdown of the final 10 in 100 consecutive movie nights!
Les Enfants du Paradis / Children of Paradise (1945) dir. Marcel Carné, starring Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur. Another film shot in wartime, with a fascinating backstory. During the occupation of France, German authorities decided to keep the French film industry going, as a kind of public relations move, and many French films were produced during this period, under Nazi supervision. The Germans restricted subject matter and put limits on film length, which is why this three-hour epic is ostensibly broken into two parts – it was shot as two films, but has always been shown as one.
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