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...Jacques Prevert script is well written, and the dialogue both mirrors and openly remarks on English "common sense." Old maxims are mixed--"Where there's an antidote, there's a poison"--and new ones made up--"Better a full beard than an empty pocket." There is much fear of scandal and it appears that there are a number of things that gentlemen don't do, although the gentlemen go ahead and do them anyway, in as clumsy fashion as possible. The costuming, which for some reason includes kilts, is appropriately ludicrous...
...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 but very much aware of her loveliness and the simple beauty of the character created by author Jacques Prevert. It was the same sensation you often feel about good friends; after a while one is no longer conscious of their looks--even the homeliest become familiar and, in a way, handsome...
This odd movie is the work of Jacques Prevert and Marcel Carné, who made Children of Paradise (TIME, Nov. 25). Of its fairly unprecedented kind-it is a classical medieval romance on film-it is close to perfection. But it seems unlikely that many U.S. moviegoers will care for it as much as the French critics who voted it the best French film...
...story of the Paris theater in 1848, Les Enfants du Paradis was made by the brilliant team which produced Port of Shadows and Daybreak-small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and weedy, irrepressible Writer Jacques Prevert. Its stars include Jean-Louis Barrault and Pierre Brasseur, who emerge from four years' darkness as two of the greatest French actors of their generation. According to TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan, the film "sums up, crowns and finishes off" the great French cinematic tradition "in the way Joyce's Ulysses did for the novel." "It is," cabled Mangan, "the most expensive (some...