French Cancan

de Toulouse-Lautrec; Jean Renoir’s classic French Cancan (1955); and Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge! (2001).

Subsequently, he made French Cancan (1955), a fabulous evocation of the Montmartre of the 19th century, and Eléna et les hommes (1956; Paris Does Strange Things), a period fantasy swept along in a prodigious movement. His last works, from the 1960s, do not achieve the same beauty, nor…