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Striptease

Documentary (France/English)

This documentary looks back at the origins of the traditional art of striptease. Why is it that everywhere in the western world, young women are deciding to become strippers? How is it that in American and European cities, hundreds of women are forming striptease companies and reviving that old forgotten showbiz word "burlesque"? Inspired by the Moulin Rouge and Pigalle, the red-light district of Paris, the original striptease or "burlesque" was a product of the leadership of the Minsky brothers, Russian immigrants to Brooklyn in the '20s. With an unpretentious theatre, they created an inexpensive entertainment for the masses, long before the invention of television and before Hollywood's tyranny of popular leisure culture.