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French Cancan
Duration | 104 |
Year | 1955 |
Categories | Comedy, Musical, Drama |
Cast | Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, MarÃa Félix, Anna Amendola |
Written By | Jean Renoir (adaptation), André-Paul Antoine (idea) |
Directed By | Jean Renoir |
Produced By | Louis Wipf |
Distributed By | BFI |
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