June 11, 2015

French Cancan (1954) Trailer

French Cancan


Eclair Lab digital restoration 2010

French Cancan is a 1954 French musical film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin and María Félix.

Watch the Trailer!


Henri Danglard, proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe 'Le Paravent Chinois' featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmartre (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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