Les enfants du Paradis 8: Carnaval September 23, 2006

As the Boulevard du Crime erupts in celebration, Nathalie (María Casares) appears at Baptiste’s hideaway, dragging with her what Pauline Kael called “their abominable offspring — the child is pure Hollywood”. Garance and Baptiste are parted, and the final curtain descends:

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Les enfants du Paradis 7: “Jealousy belongs to all if a woman belongs to none” September 22, 2006

Things are a bit awkward on the opening night of Lemaître’s “Othello” – not only is Garance there but so are four of her lovers.

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Les enfants du Paradis 6: Chants d’habits September 21, 2006

Accompanied by his new friends Lacenaire and Avril, Frédéric Lemaître (Pierre Brasseur) arrives to duel the authors of his latest play. Later, he attends the Funambules and encounters an old … friend?

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Les enfants du Paradis 5: Rehearsals are not going well September 20, 2006

What do the following movies have in common?

• Luis Buñuel’s L’Âge d’or;

• Marcel Carne’s Les Enfants du Paradis;

• Orson Welles’s Othello;

• Jules Dassin’s Du rififi chez les hommes;

• Billy Wilder’s Love in the Afternoon, Kiss Me, Stupid and The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes;

• Stanley Donen’s Once More, with Feeling!;

• Fred Zinnemann’s Behold a Pale Horse;

• William Wyler’s How To Steal A Million;

• Anatole Litvak’s The Night of the Generals;

• John Huston’s The Man Who Would Be King;

• Joseph Losey’s Don Giovanni;

• Piers Haggard’s The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu;

• Bertrand Tavernier’s Coup de torchon and ‘Round Midnight; and

• Luc Besson’s Subway

, and the answer is …

Les enfants du Paradis 4: Les amants de la lune September 19, 2006

Baptiste triumphs in his first starring role, but backstage things are a bit frenetic:
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Les enfants du Paradis 3: “L’amour est simple” September 18, 2006

After escaping the Rouge Gorge, Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) and Garance (Arletty) muse on their lives and love:

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Les enfants du Paradis 2: At the Rouge Gorge September 17, 2006

Accompanied by his new friend, the maybe-not-so-blind beggar Fil de Soie (Silk Thread) (Gaston Modot), Baptiste (Jean-Louis Barrault) encounters Garance (Arletty), whom he has not seen since he saved her from the police in front of the Funambules. Despite Lacenaire (Marcel Herrand) and his henchman Avril (Fabien Loris), Baptiste will not be deterred:

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It’s my birthday, and I’ll invite whom I want … September 16, 2006

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