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, most of the time during the German occupation, the film crackles with an undiluted Gallicism that is its most winning characteristic.
Long since a box-office hit in Czechoslovakia, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands and Italy, Les Enfants is now running for its second year in French cinema houses. It has been trimmed for U.S. audiences, given English...
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