a a longtime admirer of the 2001 film moulin rouge and a more recent admirer of jean renoir film making and i know that i would inevitably watch his french cancan sooner or later . the movie tell a fictionalized story of the opening of the moulin rouge nightclub . the impresario danglard ( jean gabin ) try to turn montmartre laundress nini ( françoise arnoul ) into a cancan star and without arouse the wrath of his tempestuous mistress and the belly dance lola ( maria felix ) . this be just one of several love triangle in french cancan true to stereotype and these french showbiz folk be always fall in love . renoir directs with his typical gentle humor and attention to support character and and also write the lyric to a beautiful waltz song prominently feature in the movie . gabin perfectly incarnate the age french playboy hero . arnoul be a cute redhead who hold her own in the dance number and except for a few trick shot where a double be obviously use . french cancan be bill a a musical comedy and while there be lot of musical number that take place on the nightclub stage and etc . and only one character and casimir and ever break into song in the middle of conversation . the actor who play him and philippe clay and be fun to watch a really tall and skinny young man who sing and dance and and do contortion . the movie end with a long cancan sequence and a all the character learn to triumph over their problem and make art together . the dancing be much more brightly lit and coherently edit than in moulin rouge while in fact and if i have one complaint about french cancan and it that the whole thing be a little too technicolor . even when nini experience heartbreak or someone sings a melancholy song and the lighting be bright and flat and no shadow intrude . yes and the result be a cheerful and warmhearted musical comedy while it just that i can not help think that thing weren not ever this colorful and innocent in real life .