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French Cancan. Directed by Jean Renoir • 1955 • France, Italy. Starring Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix. Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while ...
The Cancan dance is one of the most popular dances in Paris’s history, very fashionable around the 1830s in the public balls of the capital. The French cancan dance is often improvised, combining posturing and leg lifts. Considered today a tourist attraction of Paris at night, with a cheeky scent, the can can dance has a history intimately ...
May 31, 2012 · French Cancan (1954) Rated Unrated. It is universally agreed that Jean Renoir was one of the greatest of all directors, and he was also one of the warmest and most entertaining. "Grand Illusion" and "Rules of the Game" are routinely included on lists of the greatest films, and deserve to be. But although "Rules" contains scenes of delightful ...
Mar 13, 2018 · The cancan first appeared in Paris in the 1830s. The origins of the cancan are a little bit difficult to pin down. “Cancan” in French slang at the turn of the 19th century meant malicious gossip or scandal. At that time, people loved to go to balls and the last dance of the night was usually with couples, called the quadrille.
Aug 2, 2004 · French Cancan is an artist’s tribute to art, with Gabin’s dedicated impresario serving as an alter ego for Renoir. Against the pastel-colored backgrounds of Auguste Renoir’s Paris, all the characters in the movie attempt to find some modus vivendi between art and life, but only the impresario knows that ultimately his creation (the cancan ...
The French Cancan is first and foremost an emblematic tune: the Infernal Galop from Orpheus in the Underworld. A song from an operetta that shows the French Cancan’s ancestry. Its creator, Jacques Offenbach, was also the founder of the ‘opéra-bouffe’, or French operetta, a category of comic opera that addresses light and comical topics.
The film Cancan, 1954, was produced by the legendary French film director Jean Renoir, son of painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, a fabulously colourful, picturesque film with its wonderful costumes, beautiful dancers, Edith Piaf singing – this is a glorious celebration of the French Cancan (the word is un-hyphenated in French).
