French Cancan (1954)
French 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 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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