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  The following illustrations for Marcel Carné’s Les visiteurs du soir and Children of Paradise were created by the inimitable art director and production designer Alexandre Trauner, who brought to life detailed worlds for many films by Carné’ and other great French directors.
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The following illustrations for Marcel Carné’s Les visiteurs du soir and Children of Paradise were created by the inimitable art director and production designer Alexandre Trauner, who brought to life detailed worlds for many films by Carné’ and other great French directors.
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By Eric Vose
October 02, 2012
10:20 PM

Wonderful surrealist art, both period appropriate and new and fresh at the same time. Marcel Carne' was an absolute master, combining love, fear, magic, etc., in a way that spoke to the past and the present at the same time. He could combine 1442 and 1942 in the same film. He shows us how limitless evil is always with us. Alexandre Trauner helped bring this magic to the screen. I would sell my soul to own one of his original paintings;-).
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