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French Cancan

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French Cancan
Duration104
Year1955
CategoriesComedy, Musical, Drama
CastJean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix, Anna Amendola
Written ByJean Renoir (adaptation), André-Paul Antoine (idea)
Directed ByJean Renoir
Produced ByLouis Wipf
Distributed ByBFI
 Film Details

A loving tribute to the Paris painted by his father Pierre Auguste and the other Impressionists, Renoir's digitally restored classic is one of the great colour films â€" and an entrancingly exquisite musical.

Gabin is memorably marvellous as the impresario Danglard, who plans to launch his latest club â€" the Moulin Rouge, as it happens â€" with an reinvigorated version of the cancan. That the dance would feature his new ‘discovery' â€"lovely young Montmartre laundress Nini â€" only ignites the jealousy of his belly-dancer lover Lola… Arguably the finest of Renoir's explorations of the fraught but fruitful relationship between life and theatre, the film boasts charm, wit, style and energy galore â€" not to mention Michel Piccoli and Edith Piaf! And as it charts Danglard's risky adventures in romance and show business â€" with the putting-on-a-show story culminating in one of the most exhilarating dance sequences ever filmed â€" it is also a glorious celebration of human passion, in all its absurdity and thrilling vitality