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• Actors: Jean Gabin, Arletty, Roland Lesaffre
• Directors: Marcel Carné
• Region: All Regions
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B001TNVKWE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #324,141 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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L'Air de Paris / Air of Paris (1954) S. Korean Import All Region 0 DVD with the Original French Sountrack and removable English and Korean Subtitles. This is the clichéd story of a poor young man of whom a former boxer (Gabin) wants to make a champion. But his wife (Arletty) is not prepared to it and gets in the way. Besides, the relationship between the poor lad-an orphan who always loses-and a posh girl never rings true.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Roland Lesaffre steals the pic . . ., October 1, 2009

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This review is from: L'Air de Paris / Air Of Paris (1954) [ Import , All Regions] (DVD)

. . . as the (peroxide) blond boxer whom coach Jean Gabin latches on to, to make a champion fighter out of him. Gabin's wife Arletty isn't too thrilled with having the youth turning into Gabin's virtual son. And a further complication, the boy has met a sophisticated model, adores her, and that isn't good for training.

This 1954 release is a very up to date Carne, gone is his 1930s aura. The movie is the equal of Twentiety Century Fox's finest dramas of the period, with an engaging plot and healthy emotional engagement, but not cutting bone deep as more recent boxing flics have done. The English subtitles are relentlessly fractured in this Korean product but shamelessly pop out in Smiley yellow.

Roland Lesaffre is described as having an "adventurous youth" (note the burn scar on his upper right arm), and his boxing prowess seems to be the real thing. He certainly comes across as a hot number, if you have even a smidgin of sex hormone at your disposal. Indeed, as he continued to work with Carne over the years, he finally explained that between them there was homosensuality, not homosexuality.

I almost forgot: In L'Air de Paris the outdoor shots are bygone postcards that will tug at the hearts of you old Sorbonners.