The last film the New Beverly Cinema will be showing in 2009 is one of the best films ever made and a great personal favorite of mine. That would be the 1945 French epic “Children of Paradise,” ...

Children of Paradise, a three-hour film set in the Parisian theater scene of the 1820s, is often heralded as the French answer to Gone With the Wind. But no, Scarlett O’Hara’s majestic breakdowns ...

Marcel Carne’s unforgettable “Children of Paradise” (“Les Enfants du Paradis”) — widely (and justly) considered one of the masterpieces of world cinema — showed up in theaters a few months ago in a ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Considered to be one of the best French movies of all time, Children of Paradise ...

The best French movie is Children of Paradise (1945). It is a sweeping romance set in the 19th-century Parisian demimonde. One of the main characters is Baptiste (Jean-Louise Barrault), a mime. He is ...