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5	[[caption-width-right:350:I see England, I see France...]]
6	A 1954 romantic comedy/musical from Creator/JeanRenoir, depicting the HollywoodHistory creation of Paris' Moulin Rouge and its signature dance.
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9	!!The film provides examples of:
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11	* AmusingInjuries: Danglard's choreographer demonstrates how she was once an acclaimed ''cancaneuse'' -- and promptly throws her back out.
12	* BigEntrance: The climactic cancan performance begins with the dancers surging through the crowds, rappeling down ropes into patrons' laps, and bursting through a wall poster. Nini makes ''her'' entrance by [[LeapOfFaith leaping off the band's elevated bandstand into a rescue blanket.]]
13	* {{Catfight}}: A truly gaudy donnybrook erupts at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Moulin Rouge, when Nini and Lola, who have been vying jealously for Danglard's affections, exchange insults, then rapidly escalate to clothes-tearing and hair-pulling. Partisans of both women and spectators who aren't really on either side but are just keen for a nice big fight quickly join in.
14	* ChivalrousPervert: Danglard may hop from lover to lover, but he behaves like a perfect gentleman with each.
15	%%* ChorusGirls
16	%%* CostumeDrama[=/=]CostumePorn[=/=]GorgeousPeriodDress
17	%%* CrazyJealousGuy: Paolo.
18	%%* DancePartyEnding: The climactic cancan performance takes up the film's final ''nine'' minutes. And it is awesome.
19	* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: When Danglard and Nini first visit his choreographer, the dancers are [[BandOfBrothels lounging around the studio in their underwear]].
20	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Everyone. Paolo concedes that he's lost Nini forever but settles for attentions of her best friend, Lola accepts a marriage of convenience offer from one of Danglard's financiers, Danglard has another hit on his hands ''and'' is scoping out his next protoge/mistress, and Nini realizes her destiny is show biz after all...
21	* EuropeansAreKinky: Well, certainly kinkier than Eisenhower America from that time period. While TV married couples like [[Series/ILoveLucy Lucy and Ricky]] were shown sleeping in separate beds, Renoir's characters are having casual (and often guilt-free) sex left, right, and center.
22	* EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench: Danglard names the revised dance "the ''French'' Cancan" to appeal to Anglophilic audiences.
23	%%* FemmeFatale: Lola.
24	%%* GayParee[=/=]TheGayNineties
25	* GreenEyedMonster: Nini's reaction to Lola (and vice versa). [[FromBadToWorse It gets worse]] when, on opening night, she spots Danglard flirting with another woman. She locks herself in her dressing room and threatens to derail the entire show. Followed by Danglard's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
26	* HighClassGloves: This movie being set in LaBelleEpoque, long gloves are very much in evidence as accessories to women's formalwear and as a part of the dancers' outfits.
27	* HollywoodHistory: Renoir made no bones that the film wasn't meant to be 100% historically accurate, but at that time (late 19th century), cancan dancers were mostly semi-professional solo performers. The cancan didn't become the highly-choreographed line dance we know it as until the early 20th century.
28	%%* TheIngenue: Nini.
29	* KavorkaMan: Danglard's mistresses are consistently a couple of decades younger than he is. [[SubvertedTrope On the other hand]], Danglard is played by the handsome, urbane Creator/JeanGabin...
30	%%* MsFanservice: Francoise Arnaul as Nini and Maria Felix as Lola.
31	* MurderTheHypotenuse: Paolo's rage at Danglard for stealing Nini from him doesn't subside until nearly the end of the movie.
32	* OfCorsetsSexy: While Danglard is entertaining his financiers, Lola strolls in wearing her corset (and not much else) and requests Danglard help lace it tighter. He's more than happy to oblige.
33	%%* PublicDomainSoundtrack[=/=]StandardSnippet: The climactic performance of the cancan [[Film/{{Casablanca}} rounds up the usual suspects]], including [[Music/TheCancanSong Offenbach's "Galop Infernale,"]] chunks of Lehar's "Merry Widow," and the English music-hall standard "Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Aye."
34	* SceneryPorn: Visually, the film is a tribute to Renoir's father, the Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The vibrant Technicolor doesn't hurt, either...
35	* SexAsRiteOfPassage: Knowing that she's about to become Danglard's mistress, Nini gives up her virginity to Paolo just to get it over with. He, of course, now considers her his OneTrueLove.
36	* SlummingIt: Danglard, Lola, and their rich friends check out a low-life dive in Montmarte -- and he gets the inspiration for his next production AND girlfriend.
37	%%* SpurnedIntoSuicide: Baron Walter. [[spoiler:He survives.]]
38	* StageMom: Nini's mother. When she finds out how much stage performers earn, she all but shoves her daughter into Danglard's arms.
39	%%* StalkerWithACrush: Paolo.
40	%%* TheMusical
41	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Danglard reads Nini the riot act after her GreenEyedMonster moment jeopardizes the Moulin Rouge's opening night. Basically: she's in show business now, the show's bigger than anyone's petty jealousies, and he's always going to be on the make, so get used to it.
42	* TrainingMontage: Nini and the other dancers progress from howling in agony as they first attempt their kicks and splits, to flinging themselves around the dance floor with wild abandon.
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