French Cancan
1954 film by Jean Renoir / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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French Cancan (also known as Only the French Can) is a 1955 French-Italian musical film written and directed by Jean Renoir and starring Jean Gabin and Francoise Arnoul. 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 Edgar Degas and the Impressionists, including his own father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir.[2] It also marked his return to France and to French cinema after an exile that began in 1940.[3]
French Cancan | |
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Directed by | Jean Renoir |
Written by | Jean Renoir André-Paul Antoine |
Produced by | Louis Wipf |
Starring | Jean Gabin Françoise Arnoul María Félix |
Cinematography | Michel Kelber |
Edited by | Borys Lewin |
Music by | Georges Van Parys |
Distributed by | Gaumont Film Company Criterion Collection |
Release date | 9 April 1955 |
Running time | 104 minutes |
Countries | France Italy |
Language | French |
Box office | 4,075,306 admissions (France)[1] |
It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Max Douy.