Franju’s perverse and poetic French classic is at once lyrical, haunting, and deviant, an elegantly horrifying classic of sadism and shadowy grace.
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‘Children of Paradise’ – The theatre of love and crime on The Criterion Channel
Children of Paradise (France, 1945), Marcel Carné’s legendary drama of love, theater, and crime in 19th Century Paris, is an epic in every sense of the word. It opens and ends on a stage curtain, which rises to reveal the Boulevard of Crime, the theater district of 1830s Paris, where street performers and pickpockets alike ply […]