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 will be the star of his new show. But a tangled maze of jealousies intervenes.... (Full plot summary below)
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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 will be the star of his new show. But a tangled maze of jealousies intervenes.
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| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceFrench Cancan is full of fire, and incredibly sexy for 1954. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanLittle can prepare us for the dazzling set piece that closes the film. |
| Total FilmPhilip KempIf the film lacks the social bite of Renoir's pre-war work, it's still a rich celebration of life and the director's own birthplace. |
| GuardianPeter BradshawThe glorious final sequence, in which the cancan is finally unveiled to the rowdy audience, is some kind of masterpiece, perhaps the equal of anything Renoir ever achieved: wild, free, turbulent, exhilarating. |
| Observer (UK)Philip FrenchBegins with an extended and breathtaking evocation of the Moulin Rouge at its most ravishing, one of the cinema's greatest sequences. |
| Sight and SoundCatherine de la RocheAbove all, it is a picture to see, without a critics's notebook, as a rare pleasure. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA playful, colorful spectacle from the late era of Renoir. |
| DVDJournal.comMark Bourne...the fin de siecle Paris of our imagination, or of Auguste Renoir's paintings. Renoir's finale blends exhilarating showmanship and a carriageload of characters reconciled, their intrigues and follies stepping aside for 'the show must go on.' |
| Radio TimesJohn Ferguson[It] was not the cinema event it promised to be. Yet there is still much to treasure in this exuberant tribute to the Moulin Rouge. |
| User ReviewLori BFrench Cancan isn't the best of Jean Renoir's movies, but it might be the most fun. It's a Technicolor musical spectacular featuring one of the best dance sequences in film history, and it also has distinctively wry French humor that makes it an amusing film to watch. |
