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Fortunately, much of the movie needs no supplementary conversation. The pantomime of Jean-Louis Barrault is eloquent; the bluster, cunning, and charm of Pierre Brassuer is largely expression of hands, mouth, eyes and the intonations of voice; and the earthy beauty of Arletty defies description. It is Arletty, and my changing impressions of her throughout the movie, that I remember most vividly. For the first time in my experience, an actress who seemed plain at the beginning became more and more beautiful as the story wove its way to an ending, until I found myself not consciously seeing her physically...
...Enfants is a story of Paris before the revolution, of actors and street entertainers. Arletty is an actress named Garrance, mediocre in her theatrical skill, but inordinately wise in the ways of people and of love. One feels at times that her strange love affair with Barrault, the great mime Baptiste, would be mawkish and unbelievable if both artists were not so expert, and if the direction were not perfect. It is quite difficult to successfully film a scene where a man passionately in love with a woman he has never known walks out of her room as she stands...
...Paris, Actor Jean-Louis Barrault...
home after a successful Broadway run, announced that the scheduled appearance of his troupe in the Cairo Opera House (for which all available seats had been sold) had been canceled by the Egyptian government because of Arab hostility to France over the Tunisia and Morocco squabbles. Said Barrault: "Decidedly I will never see the pyramids, but I have so many happy memories of New York that I am somewhat consoled...
Baptiste, a bright-colored dream tale of a Pierrot in love with a statue, showed that Actor-Director-Choreographer Barrault knows how to use his body quite as well as his head. A pantomime that just falls short of being a ballet, Baptiste has a gay, floating, slightly intermittent charm, with more unusual comic effects than choreographic ones. For real substance from the troupe, Broadway had still to wait: their first bill was rather a triumphant avoidance of it, an exercise in sheer airiness and grace...