Le Bal

In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian culture and politics from the 1920s—1980s. A disparate, anachronistic series of characters, including an ordinary waiter, a Nazi collaborator, resistance fighters, and 1960s student protestors gather to celebrate and satirize 20th century France's icons, demons, and social changes.

• rock 'n' roll
• 1970s
• world war ii
• liberation
• nightclub
• musical
• revue
• racism
• air raid
• post world war ii
• dance hall
• nazi occupation
• 1920s
• 1940s
• 1980s
• 1950s
• 1960s
• ballroom
• non-narrative
• 1930s
• occupied france (1940-44)
• social allegory
• french art
• 20th century