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French Cancan is a french film of genre Drama directed by Jean Renoir released in USA on 16 april 1956 with Jean Gabin
French Cancan (1955)
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Add to a movie listFrench Cancan is a 1954 French musical film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin and María Félix.
Where Renoir’s previous film Le Carosse d’or had celebrated the 18th-century Italian commedia dell’arte, this work is a homage to the Parisian café-concert of the 19th century with its popular singers and dancers. Visually, the film evokes the paintings of Edgar Degas and the Impressionists, including his own father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It also marked his return to France and to French cinema after an exile that began in 1940.
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Set in 1890s Paris, Henri Danglard is the owner of a cafe, which features his mistress, Lola, as a belly dancer. Losing money, Henri finds himself in Montmartre and finds that the old-fashioned can-can is still being performed there. Inspired, Henri comes up with a new business scheme that aims to revive the can-can, featuring a new dancer, Nini, a laundress he meets by chance.Actors
Jean Gabin
(Henri Danglard)
Françoise Arnoul
(Nini)
María Félix
(Lola)
Giani Esposito
(Prince Alexandre)
Jean-Roger Caussimon
(Baron Walter)
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