French Cancan : une Comédie Musicale
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Call Number: DVD Musical French
On Shelf At: Downtown Library
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Film first produced in France in 1955.
Includes video introduction by Peter Bogdanovich ; interviews with Renoir and set designer Max Douy ; stills gallery ; Jean Renoir parle de son art (pt. 2 of an interview with Jean Renoir) ; essay by Andrew Sarris in accompanying booklet.
Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Maria Félix, Giani Esposito, Franco Pastorino, Edith Piaf, Patachou.
Nineteenth-century Paris comes alive in Jean Renoir's tale of the opening of the Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women: an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl-turned-cancan star. Includes a cameo by Edith Piaf.
DVD, region 1, NTSC; 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.
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SERIES
Criterion collection
243.
LANGUAGE OPTIONS
In French with optional English subtitles.
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Criterion Collection, c2004.
Year Published: 2004
Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([6] p. ; 19 cm.)
Format: DVD
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
0780028724
9780780028722
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Renoir, Jean, 1894-1979.
Antoine, André-Paul.
Wipf, Louis.
Gabin, Jean, 1904-1976.
Arnoul, Françoise.
Félix, María, 1914-2002.
Esposito, Giani.
Pastorino, Franco.
Piaf, Edith, 1915-1963.
Patachou.
Criterion Collection (Firm)
Franco London Film.
SUBJECTS
Moulin-Rouge (Night club : Paris, France) -- Drama.
Music-halls (Variety-theaters, cabarets, etc.) -- Paris -- Drama.
Cancans -- Drama.
France -- Social life and customs -- Drama.