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Les enfants du paradis (1945)
It's been called the French "Gone With the Wind"
Which on one hand will tell you how much *better* French film was at this point. It also tells what a sweeping historical, romantic epic this film is. What it doesn't say is that this film was written by one of France's best poets of the time and stars one of France's best actors of the time.
Yes, I loved this film first for the fine and beautiful mime of Barrault and Decroux, but I return to it for the lyrical Arletty and LeMaitre and the killer. Unlike GWTW, these three men all lived in France in the 1840's and *might* have known each other.
However, one of the most amusing stories about this movies is told behind the scenes. France's Vichy government with Nazi support made this movie. The Nazis wanted people all over the world to know that even under their control great French art could still be made. What the Nazis did not know was how much Resistance work was done in the making of the film. Messages were carried, meetings were had, people were fed all with Nazi support.
Getting Married in Buffalo Jump (1990)
What a beautiful, beautiful movie
...And I'm not just talking about Paul Gross! It's a lovely little film, very believable, yet a romance too. Funny, sweet, yet not treacly. Alberta is a co-star as much as Gross and Wendy Crewe, and comes off at least as well. Not only that there are three k.d. lang songs. What more could a film watcher want?