French Cancan

Jean Renoir with Jean GabinFrançoise ArnoulMaría Félix

1954 France, Italy 102 minutes

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 then-old-fashioned cancan is still danced. There, he conceives the idea of reviving the cancan as the feature of a new, more popular establishment...and meets Nini, a laundress and natural dancer, whom he hopes to star in his new show. But a tangled maze of jealousies intervenes...

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Directed by : Jean Renoir

French Cancan .

Casting

Jean Gabin

Françoise Arnoul

María Félix

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