Paris 36

A compelling, sentimental, beautifully photographed French film in which a hardworking cabaret director (Gérard Jugnot), who tries to get his accordion-playing son (Maxence Perrin) back after his wife (Élisabeth Vitali) walks out on him, teams up with his impoverished coworkers, including a handsome union organizer (Clovis Cornillac), a feisty ingénue singer (Nora Arnezeder), and an impersonator (Kad Merad), to revive a Paris music hall in 1936 when a ruthless real estate developer (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) closes down the theater after the original owner committed suicide on New Year's Eve.
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