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French cancan : une comédie musicale /

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: FRE050 | Criterion CollectionLanguage: French Original language: French Subtitle language: English Series: Criterion collection ; 243.Publication details: [New York, NY] : Criterion Collection, ©2004.Description: 1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([8] pages ; 19 cm)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 0780028724
  • 9780780028722
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 843.914
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.9.C55 F685 2004
  • PN1997 .F7448
Online resources: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Michel Kelber ; editor, Borys Lewin ; music, Georges Van Parys.
Cast: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, Maria Félix, Giani Esposito, Franco Pastorino, Edith Piaf, Patachou.Summary: 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.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Status Date due Barcode
Video Recording Carleton University, AVRC SP456 - Collections Room DVD 1485 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 16050126534

Film first produced in France in 1955.

Special features: 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.

DVD, region 1, NTSC; RSDL dual-layer ed.; container says 1.33:1 aspect ratio actually 16:9 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.

In French, with optional English subtitles.

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