The French New Wave's biggest fans? The guys who made the film they're obsessed with.
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors.
Direction
Truffaut fanboying over Carne is pure cinema history gold.
Production
Behind-the-scenes of a film literally made during Nazi occupation.
Acting
Barrault's theatrical intensity somehow works in a talking-head format.
Director
Peter Gehrig
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This doc captures the exact moment the New Wave generation tried to bury Carne as 'literary' and 'stale'—making his dignified defense here quietly heartbreaking.
Children of Paradise was shot in two parts because the Nazis seized the first half of the film stock, thinking it was complete. Carne had to beg to finish it.
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