"Director: Act! Act! You have the wrong place. We are not allowed to act here. We walk on our hands! And you know why? They bully us. If we put on plays, they'd have to close their great, noble theaters! Their public is bored to death by museum pieces, dusty tragedies and declaiming mummies who never move! But the Funambules is full of life, movement! Extravaganzas! Appearances, disappearances, like in real life! And then-boom-the kick in the pants!"
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Children of Paradise
Children of Paradise (French: Les Enfants du Paradis) is a 1945 film set among the Parisian theatre scene of the 1820s and 30s that tells the story of a beautiful courtesan, Garance, and the four men who love her in their own ways: a mime artist, an actor, a criminal and an aristocrat. The film was voted "Best Film Ever" in a poll of 600 French critics and professionals in 1995.
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