Word: paradisal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Les Enfants du Paradis. Three hours of sharp, cynically witty scenes add up to a refreshingly aimless, very French film made during the Occupation (TIME, Nov. 25).
Les Enfants du Paradis. Three hours of sharp, cynically witty scenes add up to a refreshingly aimless, very French film made during the occupation (TIME, Nov. 25).
Les Enfants du Paradis. Three hours of sharp, cynically witty scenes add up to a fairly pointless, very French film made during the Occupation (TIME, Nov. 25).
Les Enfants du Paradis (Pathé-Tricolore) is the most ambitious, most expensive (about 60,000,000 francs) and longest (just under three hours) movie the French have thus far turned out (TIME, March 19, 1945). It is also probably the Frenchest. In production for three years and three months...
* A misleading translation: paradis is French slang for a theater's cheapest, topmost balcony seats. More idiomatic translation: The Kids in the Peanut Gallery.