{"id":23056,"date":"2026-01-15T14:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T12:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/?p=23056"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:38:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T10:38:30","slug":"french-film-of-the-month-children-of-paradise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/en\/culture\/french-film-of-the-month-children-of-paradise\/","title":{"rendered":"French film of the Month: Children of Paradise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The French film of January puts the spotlight on\u00a0one\u00a0of the gems\u00a0of French cinema history,\u00a0Children of Paradise (Marcel Carn\u00e9, 1945). One of the few major productions made during the Occupation, the film\u2014written by Jacques\u00a0Pr\u00e9vert\u2014is a landmark of poetic realism. Just a few years after the era of silent films, spoken dialogue fully comes into\u00a0life via\u00a0the romantic adventures of Garance, a free-spirited and daring woman at the heart of Parisian theatre\u00a0circles.\u00a0Children of Paradise\u00a0also stands as a testament to a film industry at the height of its artistic and technical mastery.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-22145 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/fleur-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>Synopsis: Paris, 1828. On the Boulevard du Crime, amid the bustling crowd of actors and street performers, the mime Baptiste saves Garance from a false legal sentence through his silent testimony. It is here that the ill-fated love story between Garance\u2014a free-spirited and daring woman\u2014and Baptiste\u00a0begins:\u00a0she intimidates him, and he lacks the courage to confess his love. At the same\u00a0time\u00a0unfold\u00a0the intertwined passions of Nathalie, the theater director\u2019s daughter who loves Baptiste, and Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick, a promising young actor who begins an affair with Garance, even as she secretly loves Baptiste as well.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Duration:\u00a03h02<\/span><br \/>\n<span data-contrast=\"auto\">Languages: French\u00a0with\u00a0English\u00a0subtitles<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The tickets\u00a0will\u00a0soon\u00a0be\u00a0available\u00a0on\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemaorion.fi\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">Cinema Orion&#8217;s website<\/span><\/a><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0(9,5\u20ac \u2013 12\u20ac).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discover this masterpiece of 1940s poetic realism, voted the greatest film of all time by 600 critics! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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