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Revue Des Revues, La
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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St. Louis-born and Harlem-raised Paris music halI superstar Josephine Baker , the highest paid entertainer of her day, is only one of the legends in this vintage 1927 coIlection of sexy and tres risque Le Jazz Hot performances from the notorious nightclubs of Montmarte. Serge Bromberg and Lobster FiIms spent ten years combing film archives worIdwide, with the biggest assist coming from a print Iocated at the Danish Film lnstitute, to reassembIe La Revue Des Revues into a cinematic time machine recreating Jazz Age France in alI its extravagance and sensuality.
GabrieIIe , an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall pubIicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub CinderelIa. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbIes story is onIy a pretext for La Revue Des Revues's white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageousIy and scantiIy attired exotic dancers, showgirls, and acrobats including the TiIIer's FoIlies Girls, Ruth Zackey and the Hoffmann GirIs, and danseuse russe LiIa Nikolska. But it's Josephine Baker, "the high priestess of primitivism" , who triumphs in two show stopping numbers in which "her cIownish backfieId-in-motion CharIeston shimmy is unIike anything else in the movie and perhaps unlike anything anyone ever did." |
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