Cine-club: French Cancan by J.Renoir

City: Delhi
Location: M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance Française de Delhi
Date: Fri, 2011/06/24 -5:30pm – 9:00pm
Price: Free admission.Open to all.
Category: Film screening
Duration: 90 minutes

 

 

Friday, 24 June 2011

5.30 pm & 7.30 pm

French Cancan

Director: Jean Renoir 

1954-col-90 min 

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.