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]]>Jean Gabin is impresario Danglard, juggling rich backers, bailiffs and various mistresses to achieve his ambition.
If the film lacks the social bite of Renoir’s pre-war work, it’s still a rich celebration of life and the director’s own birthplace.
It culminates in the Moulin’s opening night, a riotous explosion of dance and colour, all tinged with a bittersweet hint of nostalgia for a vanished belle époque world.
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