Children of Paradise Comments

  • Aletha 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    Why do the French always play these weird emotional dramas? The importance of choosing actors is summed up from this film. The female one is old and ugly and has to interpret a beautiful woman, which leads to a complete deviation from the...

  • Toney 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    I can't imagine that this is something that was filmed in German-occupied France during World War II~ Baptiste's performance is really like a certain part of the soul of the theater~ The vicissitudes of life, love is simple~ Although I don't know what it is like, I can see the beauty and simplicity People who feel love, people who can fully believe in and be tortured by it, are enviable and frightening in a...

  • Iva 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    The mortal world is nothing more than that. Faith, conscience, desire, joy and sorrow are all in it. Everyone knows they can't do it, but that's not what life is all about! Farewell to the loved one in the white carnival, and the life behind him is also blocked. This is the situation Baptiste has always been in, and it is also his funeral after a fantasy collided with reality. Envy Frederick, tasted sweet love, drank bitter hatred, someone avenged him, because he could endure tears and continue...

  • Spencer 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    I love you, you love him, he loves her...love is so old-fashioned...a shot spanning six years! I like the heroine, let all the men in the world bow down under their pomegranate skirt, and then my heart is still free, she does not belong to anyone (it is said to be a metaphor for France at that time). At the end of the film, the man in white disappears into the carnival crowd. Carnival is the loneliness of a group of people. Thank you Xiaohai for the...

  • Roslyn 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    [Exhibition at the China Film Archive] 4K restored version on the big screen. More than 3 hours did not feel long, and I was deeply immersed in the story. Although the plot is a bit bloody, the performances, photography, music, scheduling, etc. are all excellent. Especially the drama and pantomime of the play within the play. Especially wonderful. Start with a loud crowd and end with a loud crowd. It is truly an astonishing masterpiece. Let alone a movie from 70 years ago. Five-star...

  • Frederik 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    That's great. Great. The performance, the lines, the play within the play, the three screenwriters are really wonderful. But what moved me the most was every time we met and said goodbye. I originally thought that Garance was so perfect as if it was just an ideal, but what does it matter to her in the end? Carnival and parting, people come and go, it seems that all of life. [If you watch it in the museum, you will cry like a dog....

  • Kristy 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Flowing water and flowers and spring are gone, heaven and...

  • Florian 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Marcel Canet's masterpiece, a classic of French poetic realism. The film is more than three hours long, filmed during the Nazi occupation, and tells the story of a polyamorous love affair at a Paris theatre in the 1830s. The gorgeous and vivid boulevards in the film are the grandest set in the history of French cinema. The burlesque, pantomime and drama interspersed, the play within the play, the interaction of breaking the fourth wall, the counterpoint of actors and characters are all...

  • Wava 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    Don't look back. They'll pounce on your throat like a mad...

  • Rhoda 2022-03-26 09:01:10

    The charm of the characters outweighs the story, the lively cobweb relationships developed by various goods, the main line of polyamorous love is left blank, and the three-hour film length is not a...

Extended Reading

Children of Paradise quotes

  • Jéricho: I may be drunk, but I've still got principles.

  • Jéricho: What's Baptiste got against me?

    Nathalie: Nothing. Only that you don't mind your own business.

    Jéricho: Is it his business what is or isn't mine? I've always lived all alone. So I take an interest in others. Always alone. That's not living. No one to love me. Nothing, zero, naught. If I were a widower, at least I'd have memories. But no woman would have me. They preferred petty fly-by-nights and libertines.