By Ben McCann, University of Adelaide
It is March 9, 1945 in a swanky cinema in Paris. The audience is settling in for the premiere of Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis) – the latest work by Marcel Carné, best known for his moody 1930s ‘poetic realist’ films. The script is by celebrated poet Jacques Prévert. The curtains part. The film begins.
