Hidden Genre Gems for Fans of La folie du jour: Cult Guide

Dir: Joe Francis

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Die Frauen von Folies Bergères perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Cochu, a simple soldier, is mistakenly believed to be a rich heir which causes many problems.

Dir: Joe Francis

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of La revue des revues perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Joe Francis

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of La folie du jour perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Joe Francis

Gabrielle (Helene Hallier), an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall publicity stunt to become the new Parisian nightclub Cinderella. But this lighter-than-champagne-bubbles story is only a pretext for LA REVUE DES REVUES's white-hot, non-stop procession of outrageously and scantily attired exotic dancers, showgirls, and acrobats including the Tiller¹s Follies Girls, Ruth Zackey and the Hoffmann Girls, and danseuse russe Lila Nikolska. But it's Josephine Baker, "the high priestess of primitivism" (J. Hoberman Village Voice), who triumphs in two show stopping numbers in which "her clownish backfield-in-motion Charleston shimmy is unlike anything else in the movie and perhaps unlike anything anyone ever did."