Henri Danglard, the proprietor of the fashionable (but bankrupt) cafe ‘Le Paravent Chinois’ featuring his mistress, belly dancer Lola, goes slumming in Montmartre (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...
亨利是「中國屏風」,一間時尚(但已破產)咖啡館的老板,肚皮舞孃露娜是他的情婦,在咖啡館駐場表演。破產後亨利搬到在當時是貧民窟的蒙馬特區(約1890 年),因該處仍然有人表演早已過時的肯肯舞。在那兒,他想到了一個令肯肯舞再度興起的方法,就是在一個新穎和大衆化的場所中專以肯肯舞作招來…… 還有他認識了有着驚人舞蹈天賦的洗衣婦妮妮,亨利有意讓妮妮擔任他新節目的主角。但卻想不到嫉妒會令人瘋狂……
DRAMATIC COMEDY / FRANCE, ITALY / 1955 / 97 MINS
IN FRENCH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
DIRECTED BY: Jean Renoir
STARRING: Jean Gabin, Françoise Arnoul, María Félix , Michel Piccoli