France / Italy / 1983 / 112′ / No Dialogue

In this musical set in a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines — rather than a streamlined narrative — tell the story of Parisian culture and politics from the 1920s through the
1980s. Dance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time. A disparate, anachronistic series of characters, including an ordinary waiter, a Nazi collaborator, resistance fighters and 1960s student protestors gather to celebrate and parody 20th-century France’s icons, demons and social changes.