Marcel Carné's escapist period piece, made in France during the Nazi occupation, looks like an effort to manufacture a movie that belongs on the library shelf beside Hugo and Balzac. For certain, it is a literate piece of work, a-buzz with witty and crafty gab; and it is played with superhuman bulge and hustle-bustle and spirit. It gives you 19th-century Paris up and down, the high life and the low life and the theatrical life; and it detains you in this legendary romantic retreat for over three hours. With Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Marie Casares; written by Jacques Prevert. (1945) — Sgt. Tiki
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