French cancan (1955) Fr Sbt. Fr
Director: Jean Renoir Writers: Jean Renoir (adaptation), AndréPaul Antoine (idea) Stars: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe Le Paravent Chinois featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmarte (circa 1890) where the thenoldfashioned cancan is still danced. There, he conceives the idea of reviving the cancan as the feature of a new, more popular meets Nini, a laundress and natural dancer, whom he hopes to star in his new show. But a tangled maze of jealousies
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