Jean Renoir's backstage musical provides plenty of opportunities for short naps while following the fortunes of discontented shopgirls and licentious showbizzers in a harshly colorful, turn-of-the-century Paris. Finally the energy is gathered for a big finale, as Renoir switches back and forth, didactically and thrillingly, between Jean Gabin musing in private on the artist's duty, and the chorus line sweeping across the teeming cabaret. (1954) — Duncan Shepherd
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