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Ben McCann, Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide

Children of Paradise is the greatest film to come out of France, even 80 years on

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It is March 9 1945 in a swanky cinema in Paris. The audience is settling in for the premiere of Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis) – the latest work by Marcel Carné, best known for his moody 1930s “poetic realist” films. The script is by celebrated poet Jacques Prévert. The curtains part. The film begins.

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