"Paroxysm"
"Of eroticism"
"Paroxysm"
"Of exoticism"
"Eternal lesson in seduction"
"Eternal pleasure in loving desire"
"Seduction"
""Baby buns" is what they call me when I pass,"
"all those fellows whistling, looking at my ass,"
"I've had enough!"
"Why can't a gal be left alone just 'cause she's
"there's always some dodo right there"
"who blocks my way with his tough stare,"
"I know my baby buns are cute,"
"but it's not fair!"
"My dear Sir, please take your hand away."
"No, indeed, I guess it's not your day."
"You're just wastin' my precious time."
"Guys like you aren't even worth a dime."
"Step aside and let me by,"
"or else I'll blacken up your eye,"
"you just ain't my kind of man, and baby, that's
""Baby buns" is what they call me when I pass,"
"all those fellows whistling, looking at my ass,"
"I've had enough!"
"Why can't a gal be left alone just 'cause she's
"there's always some dodo right there"
"who blocks my way with his tough stare,"
"I know my baby buns are cute,"
"but it's not fair!"
"Open..."
"Oh, open, do open your door."
"I have to see you."
"I must speak to you,"
"excuse my boldness, but the door..."
"Open..."
"open, do open your door"
"I have to see you."
"I must speak to you,"
"excuse my boldness, but the door..."
"Open..."
"Oh, open, do 0pen...your legs, kiss,"
"excuse me, oh my boldness,"
"open your legs, come on, open your legs."
"Come on, open! Open your legs!"
"You've got to open your legs for me, baby!"
Open your legs!"
"We are the girls from the Crazy,"
"we sing and dance kind of funky,"
"you might think we're somewhat naughty,"
"please, don't you get the wrong idea."
"All men with plenty of money,"
"diamonds and rubies, are yummy,"
"if you would like to be happy,"
"if you would like to be in Paris,"
"come to the Crazy Horse saloon."
- Hi. - How are you?
Fine and you?
Fine
He's here, right.
There's someone again.
Who's that guy there on all fours?
Volga!
That's a Volga!
That's Crazy.
Can you start the "Shadows" film?
The film of "Shadows".
What do you call that film?
You called it "Bernardin".
It works.
Please open the curtain completely!
I love the clapperboard.
House lights off, please.
It's so hot!
Right.
Bend,bend.
Throw it forward.
Yes... Bend, bend...
How much time do we have? Two hours?
Koko, Lumina, Zula.
OK.
Once again.
So hot!
Stretch, bend.
So hot!
Thanks, girls. To the dressing room.
Take a shower. Even two.
It should not touch the strip of mirrors next to
We need to work on the lighting.
Could you please just come down?
Should A, B, C and D be at the center?
Yes.
Is the backdrop centered?
Maybe it's not well-centered.
It is centered.
It is? Are you sure?
That's what we agreed on.
That you finish this way.
Then you go UP-
Turn around.
That's right.
I take your skirt off.
You slide down.
Slide in this position.
I should first turn like this.
I don't feel sensual with that.
But frankly
And then...
Maybe I can help you like that...
You catch it, then you sway again...
And again.
There... So after it's the same.
My body against yours.
Yes but there I used to do something and you did'
I used to do something like this.
Yeah?
Wait. Like this.
Like this.
Then we cuddle with each other.
Like this.
And then backward, with the music.
There, backward with the step.
We come back from further away.
And there, once again and we leave.
Go ahead, put your hand.
There...OK.
Did you get it?
Want to try?
Lada took a break.
Good, Zula. Closing your eyes is great.
Good idea.
You let yourself go, you close your eyes.
And you change position.
...three, four...
Sensuality awakens!
And one...three...
It's hot, you open the helmet.
Three...two, three, four...Four...
You stand up slowly.
You're hot.
It's the heat that makes you stand up.
Yes...
Now, Lumina enters.
You go to the window.
Go to the window, Lumina.
You look at each other.
It changes again.
You leave the window.
And you're on the other side.
Now, first contact.
Good! Second contact...
Contact
Stay in front of the window.
Lumina, not forward. Zula, not backward.
Back in front of the window.
Get out of the moving walkway.
And kiss.
On your knees.
Well arched.
Buttocks.
Then it starts.
Here you go.
Get closer.
Yes...
Move away.
Get closer again.
Now you can do that thing...
that thing you do in the end.
And... boom!
That hook should be changed.
It scares me.
Good.
And please turn the work lights off on the set.
Girls, change places.
You, the three new girls.
Together, together.
Try to feel each other.
Yasna, good on the right, bad on the left.
Bend your right hand, Yasna.
Bend your right hand.
Not too much. Higher.
Perfect.
Thank you.
The main question is the lighting.
We cancelled "Vestal" in order to make
more side lighting available.
Part of the light plot was dedicated to "Vestal".
Without "Vestal", we can do better
and play with the colours of the side lighting.
This job requires... and I somehow speak in your
We should first clean all these spotlights
that all have a thick layer of dust inside.
And then we should check on the whole show and on
with the costumes, to see the result,
to see what needs to be adjusted.
We may need more side lighting to outline the bod
It's the basic lighting in ballet.
It picks the bodies out and makes them more legib
We must use it more and better.
This reviewing of the show brings back my eternal
please, let's try to close for some time.
Without closing...
Philippe, I'm sorry, the answer is no.
What?
I can't, we can't.
Think about it, let's talk to the boss.
I know that he'll say no.
If you want to make a big step forward,
and reach a higher quality in the show...
We claim to have the best nude dancing show in th
and that we're renewing this type of show,
so give me the means to achieve it.
If we want a dazzling premiere,
that will impress the intellectuals and all, let'
Some things can't be achieved if we never close.
I can only pass on the shareholders' position
which has been the same for a year.
I can't believe there are no legal solutions to I
I understand that paying 60 people for doing noth
Even if some of them may clean the spotlights.
There must be a solution.
There are firms that close and...
Take a vacation.
And don't go bankrupt. It can be done.
I insist that we find a solution.
I'm convinced that a break is needed to ensure a
I just know that the shareholders said no.
At a certain point, they must understand.
- We also have constraints. - I agree.
They ask us to deliver a quality show.
And it involves quite a few things, including clo
If not, the quality won't be there.
I'd be disappointed...
- The show works. - Right.
It's important. I'm not blackmailing you,
I'm just saying it's important.
Just look at how "Evolution" works.
This act has been worked on year after year!
Giving me only one or two weeks to deliver is inh
I need similar conditions to reach the same level
as "Evolution", which has been worked on for year
Even if I put all my talent and energy into it,
I may sometimes be wrong,
I need to adjust and improve.
I agree on this. But...
Therefore I can't deliver...
I can't go on blindly to deliver 3 new acts.
The finale is very important, we do need a new on
Just give me a rough idea of your schedule.
For the finale, end of July.
I already asked three times for extra time,
and they're on my back...
I keep my head down...
We have to face what creation is about.
I agree with you, but...
Once again, with a new finale
and a solution to some problems of overlapping se
we basically have a new show, don't you agree?
We have a show with four or five old acts instead
but the overall mood is really different.
After we changed the interludes and the overall p
Right, Philippe, but the shareholders don't care.
They said: Only three old acts
- I'll explain to them. - OK.
That's all I can say.
They tell me: This is not what was agreed.
Because it's creation and you can't control every
I know they think in terms of a business plan,
but still, it's about art.
Suppose they ordered a painting of a farm
and I think that the cows should be here
even if they wanted the cows to be there.
A painting is art.
I know that the cows should be here!
You may have to justify yourself
though I agree with you.
You'll work all summer?
We'll do "Venus".
What happened with "Venus"?
Didn't I tell you?
Well the girls often come out of this act in tear
They hate touching each other.
They don't like it.
Because of the bizarre culture they have here.
The girls are definitely not dirty.
They really hate touching each other...
They are modest.
Getting closer than this...
there seems to be an invisible wall
they bump into, and they won't get closer.
And what if it was a solo?
They do have a problem pretending to do things.
Very few like to pretend.
So we should work on it,
so that it becomes technically possible.
I like Zula's idea, even if I must check on it,
to put moon boots on the revolving cage.
The first cosmonaut would have to go like this...
It could be funny and interesting,
but it means work and another technical challenge
We'll see.
Yes!
Shall we have the second group?
It's half an inch short here.
Here we go.
On the third "cha", off you go.
Over here.
Then you move on...
You move on...
You're too...
You have to do everything sideways.
Right, much nicer.
It's really good.
Yeah, it's...
The shadows are dancing.
Go.
And... one... and ...two...
And then... a lesson in shadows.
I place my body according to focus.
Like in front of a camera lens.
The focus is there.
You always have to... even if it's weird,
you have to play like this, or like that,
in order to make the body visible.
Sharper saut de chat.
A saut de chat should make you move to the side,
that's the idea.
Don't stay there.
Right! You move to the side.
It's 6 o'clock, girls.
We should stop.
Thank you very much, girls.
So France Billets, perfect.
A Diamond package.
Francis?
Right.
For two?
All right.
Your name, please?
First name, please. Michel.
Perfect. May I have your mobile number?
A proforma invoice?
Yes
Good evening.
On stage in twenty-five minutes.
A dancer for stage manager.
Any dancer?
Zula, did I give you the invitation?
Yes, thanks.
I love the show.
Some things need to be improved.
We don't know about the wigs.
But I found the music really pleasant and funny.
It stays in your head.
But now, I don't feel good with the ending.
"Whispers"?
It needs revision.
Even more than the finale.
Like what?
It needs something.
Right now, it falls flat.
Good evening.
Perfect, thank you.
I believe that's us.
Yes, actually.
So, somewhere...
Somewhere here or over there...
Or maybe here?
Yeah, that will be good.
Take this gentleman to number 417.
Instead of number 212.
Sir...
You're welcome, have a nice show, Sir.
Good evening.
Smile, please.
"Baby, can't you see?"
"I'm calling."
"A guy like you should wear a warning."
"it's dangerous, I'm falling..."
"There's no escape, I can't wait,"
"I need a hit, baby, give me it,"
"you're dangerous, I'm loving it."
"Too high, can't come down,"
"losing my head, spinning round and round,"
"do you feel me now?"
"With the taste of your lips, I'm on a ride,"
"you're toxic, I'm slipping under,"
"taste of your poison paradise,"
"I'm addicted to you,"
"don't you know that you're toxic?"
"And I love what you do,"
"don't you know that you're toxic?"
It's getting late to give you up
"I took a sip from my devil's cup,"
"slowly it's taking over me."
"Too high, can't come down,"
"it's in the air and it's all around,"
"can you feel me now?"
"With the taste of your lips, I'm on a ride,"
"you're toxic, I'm slipping under,"
"taste of your poison paradise,"
"I'm addicted to you,"
"don't you know that you're toxic?"
"lntoxicate me now, with your loving now,"
"I think I'm ready now, I think I'm ready now."
"lntoxicate me now, with your loving now,"
"I think I'm ready now, I think I'm ready now."
"lntoxicate me now, with your loving now,"
"I think I'm ready now, I think I'm ready now."
"lntoxicate me now."
It's getting late to give you up
"I took a sip from my devil's cup,"
"slowly it's takin' over me."
It must have hurt!
He's a big star in Russia.
A Bolshoi soloist.
He's is very popular. Everywhere.
He has some physical qualities.
This is unique!
You make me so...
No!
Just the way she got up...
The floor looks slippery.
These are dancing mats.
It looks tough.
It is tough.
You can see it.
Great, no?
We hardly see each other
You see the darkness of a long coat trailing behi
I catch the whiteness of a summer dress
I'm only a shadow
and you,
you're a light
"Yearning for more than a blue day,"
"I enter your new life for me,"
"burning for the true day,"
"I welcome your new life for me."
"Forgive me, let live me, set my spirit free."
"forgive me, let live me, set my spirit free."
"Losing, it comes in a cold wave,
"of guilt and shame, all over me,"
"a child has arrived in the darkness,"
"the hollow triumph of a tree."
"Forgive me, let live me, kiss my falling knee,"
"forgive me, let live me, bless my destiny."
"Forgive me, let live me, set my spirit free,"
"weakness sown, now overgrown,"
"Man is the baby."
"Forgive me, let live me, set my spirit free."
"Weakness sown, now overgrown,"
"Man is the baby,"
"Man is the baby."
- Are you in "Scanner"? - No.
We should try it, if you don't mind.
There will be a reversal of scenes.
Maybe we won't deliver "lnfrared"
at the end of the week.
Did you know?
It was decided yesterday. Philippe just told me.
"Scanner" is far from being ready,
but we'll try to be ready.
If this lady would kindly take this off...
Then we'll try
a new costume for "Venus".
- For "Venus" - Yeah.
We'll make it more like...
a Formula One champ...
rather than...
I was also told yesterday
that we have to try the skirts on.
Absolutely.
New skirts.
Yes
For you.
Do you have to change it?
Because the one I have now is really great.
The material looks very nice with the lights.
It looks nice but something still bothers me.
The material is so shiny
that when you dance like this,
leaning on the table with the lighting behind,
instead of making nice round buttocks,
you get bony buttocks.
The light draws a stroke like this on your buttoc
And you end up with...
something bony.
Instead of something round, see?
But with this new skirt made of a matte material,
you feel the curves.
It doesn't catch the light
and it's more elegant, like for a woman CEO.
There's something more elegant about it.
I really loved the other material too,
but with the lighting... it becomes...
Too bright.
It spoils your figure.
I really had the impression...
while, I mean, the idea is to have nice round but
It didn't do it.
We also thought
that this material would be too fragile
to be used long term, and so on.
Meanwhile, wear it.
You'll see the new one.
Daisy tried it on, and it's lovely.
Come here, Jérome,
I have a hard time undressing the lady.
Go undress in the fitting room
and then come to me.
Would you have some shoes for me?
You want slippers?
Thanks
I'll find some.
""Baby buns" is what they call me when I pass..."
Ch, hey!
"Oh, darling!"
"She's floating like a butterfly, so charming..."
Baby girl!
"She recognized the man in me."
"Number 1 in the world."
"There's something in her eyes like a spell getti
"oh lord, she gave me one smile, two smiles, thre
"she got me going wild."
"Worth more than diamonds and pearl."
"So, baby, don't change your style."
"Sweet honey!"
"Oh no, no, no!"
"Tease me, tease me, tease me, tease me, baby!"
"Till I lose control."
"Tease me with your loving until I lose control."
"Take all my body and soul, oh girl."
You're early again.
You in the back, do something else.
"Woman, tease me till I lose control,"
"me ball tease me and tickle up me fancy,"
"right round the clock until me reach climax,"
"and when we reach, me will tell fi stop,"
"will ya aim fi de sky and will not turn back, br
"you make me heart tick like a clock..."
"Woman, tease me,"
"And take a look me weak spot"
"Only your touch can make me, holds me up"
I like this... what Lumina is doing.
You look like cheerleaders, but...
"Woman, your love is like fire burning inna me so
"Woman, tease me till I lose control."
"Tease me, tease me, tease me, tease me, baby!"
Good, I'm happy,
we understand each other, we're improving.
They want me to carry out a lot of improvements.
Without closing?
No way?
Today, it's no way.
And no it is.
I keep insisting...
I'm rather...
Stubborn!
But since I deliver what I'm supposed to...
I don't give up...
When I talked to the boss, he sounded happy.
He's reassured.
I went to see him and said: Fire me.
I didn't fulfil our agreement.
I take full responsibility, but I'll explain why.
There are various problems. Let's sort them out.
If I'm sometimes inefficient,
it's not only because of my being useless.
We go one step forward, two steps backward.
We cancelled some acts, like "Venus" and "Scanner
I can't be brilliant every morning,
and that's that.
Find someone who can and hire him.
Apart from that, are you happy?
I'm passionate about my job.
My job now is to do the Crazy Horse show,
and it keeps me quite busy.
I see only what's wrong and I work on it.
The rest is normal to me.
When it's good, it's just normal.
Yet I'm still deeply worried
when I see a show like last night.
We had great dancers and great technicians
compared with less fortunate shows.
But there still was one mistake per act.
These constant errors frighten me.
The infrared broke down the other day.
All these little things can make the show good or
First, the curtain for "lnfrared" was slanted.
The image was blurred.
They forgot one of the tulles while screening Dai
It was screened on the curtain and you saw absolu
We're supposedly
the best chic nude show on earth.
Fine, we can do it.
But if anything breaks, you have to wait,
the act has to stop and we all look ridiculous!
I'm worried because of the weaknesses of the team.
Someone talked about reorganizing
the structure of stage management.
It could be useful.
I'm trying to do it.
I'll see Maurizio about it.
He's not convinced, I am.
Which means?
For example, I would like Rico to be the stage ma
Rico is very reliable.
Rico's quite reliable.
If he'd be the stage manager,
I would go to him for any problem and he would ha
Today, a wrong curtain is nobody's responsibility.
It's their stupid rule: all jobs are interchangea
It makes sense with the dancers,
not with the technicians.
I tried to explain it to Andrée and to the boss
Imagine you're the boss today, a secretary or an
And the next day, you'll take care of marketing.
They are supposed to know how to do everything.
They must be able to take over for each other.
This system has to change.
If not, it will remain shaky and fragile.
They should know everything but with more precise
Responsibilities.
Some of the technicians can't be stage managers.
There are things that they just can't do.
Let's face it and put them in the right place.
Right!
We're all faced with our limits.
For some things, I'm just useless, I just don't d
That's why I won't do "Que calor"!
Let me compliment you: you're all just great.
Speaking about "Que calor"...
you were in it yesterday.
I think that you don't like the act but you do it.
You're funny and punchy.
That's generous. Let's keep it that way.
Today is International Day for Biodiversity.
Let's talk about the invasion of exotic species.
This species digs burrows in the ground.
The water will therefore be much muddier.
We need a method
to coordinate the design shops.
We can't shift from one plan to another,
or give up one thing and go to the next.
Another idea, one girl instead of two...
These constant changes in the organization we had
led me to the complete madness I experienced
the other day.
We do a sloppy job-
It's not the tradition here.
Nothing is green-lighted in the production meetin
so I don't want to attend them
because I have a job to do...
Roselyne kept you posted though.
She did, that's what we had agreed...
The new schedule...
My fault. I admit it.
That's not it, that's not it.
It changes all the time.
At each meeting, we change everything.
- There are reasons. - I know the reasons!
I try to be the most...
You must understand
that we simply can't do a good job
with the same enthusiasm we had in the beginning
and for a result that would honour the Crazy.
And everybody.
What we did was... shitty.
You can't do as you please with the girls.
They do the splits,
facing the audience...
Or not, or whatever...
You don't take chances with a naked girl.
The costumes may not be important to you, they ar
But we don't have the time
to validate anything with you nor with Andrée.
At least you!
We had a creation meeting scheduled weekly.
It's been three weeks without any.
No more creation meetings. The production meetings
give us a one-week perspective, never more.
What do we do? I can't go on like this.
It's making me crazy.
My idea for the title "Make Me Crazy"
was not me crazy but the men in the audience.
The girls make them crazy, not me.
Me, I'm happy to work, I love what I do,
making the girls look beautiful.
I can't ruin Roselyne's work,
ruin the image of the Crazy,
I can't ruin myself!
Should I remain silent and act like a little mous
It's not my fault". It's absurd!
We have to be happy and proud of what we do.
In the beginning, I felt honoured,
but in the end...
I don't want to shame the Crazy.
This meeting is about this:
we should have a complete review from beginning t
and then share the work out between us,
so that the planning is completed within a week.
If I can't have the full picture, I'll give up.
We felt it was logical
that you'd oversee
all the costumes of the new show to keep it coher
That's what they asked me at first, so...
It's much better that way, since myself,
I now should oversee the consistency
in terms of choreography, music and structure.
If I cannot supervise the whole show,
it will end up being shaky.
The same goes for you.
You should supervise the costumes as a whole.
As for the method to do it, frankly...
I'm lost, I don't know.
We have an approval process,
which is normal, for all the decisions.
You have to approve,
Andrée must approve,
and Roselyne must approve.
It became anarchic
because at the same time we were creating a new s
We should know who does what.
We are always in creation!
It's been going so fast that we lost touch with c
OK. Yes.
Don't smile.
Don't look at me, look in front of you.
Let me... Let me see...
Yes, perfect.
OK...
OK... turn your head.
Turn your head a little bit on this side.
Lumina,
please understand that these women are like rival
At first, they size each other up,
they look each other up and down,
they judge each other
to see who's stronger,
more beautiful, more competent.
Then comes a phase of seduction with a touch of r
They go into a kind of fight,
both lethal and loving,
and one kills the other.
Zoo be zoo be zoo...
be zoo be zoo...
Here we go.
Push your hips up.
Don't swing it, position yourself in profile.
"We dance kind of funky,"
"you might think we're somewhat naughty,"
"but please,"
"don't you get the wrong idea."
Forward and up.
"All men with plenty of money..."
Baby, go backward,
keep in line with the others.
Profile.
"If you"
"would like to be happy,"
"in Paris,"
"come to the Crazy Horse saloon."
Lena, keep your hips up.
Don't lower your head.
Final pose.
Thank you, girls.
We take it from...
ls that it?
...Darling, what did you do with that pearl?
What? Pam pam pam pam.
"L am a good girl."
Hop hop hop... Hop...
Good!
OK! Pipimpipimpim... Good!
Bang!
Backward!
Turn around.
Uh yes!
I know what happened.
I showed you something that's not in it.
This was good.
But when you're there...
You have no retire, you're here.
You don't lose time.
I just saw that I taught you incorrectly.
This foot down... and turn around.
Right.
It gives you more time.
I showed it to you with a retire.
But it takes one beat more and you miss it.
Leg down, foot down...
it helps you turn around.
Right. Exactly. And you leave. There.
It's been an excellent rehearsal.
Finale on stage, please!
"Desire" is on!
I noticed that the good thing with "Stars of Pari
was that the three rows of sidelights were on.
Sorry, but the problem is...
we're not in the lighting angle.
The moving walkway and the letters
are not lit by the sidelights.
We could add more all the same,
for the feeling...
What worked well yesterday was that at times,
all these lights were on,
and anyway we had these two on... intermittently.
So, in addition to the basic lighting,
we'll need these.
Not always, but just to have some sort of progres
so that you have more and more light.
You're doing too many things at the same time.
You decide on the lighting aesthetically
while setting the lighting to the music.
What I would do...
what I did for "Jungle" and with Dita,
was to try it first manually without recording th
We have to record it, it's for tonight!
We've been rehearsing manually for two days.
We can check it together.
Could I have an almost naked girl inside a letter?
Almost naked?
Yes
This is beautiful.
It'd be more beautiful if the letters were animat
Frankly, I...
That's sublime.
Right, but we can't have everything at the same t
We said we'd have an animation on the curtain, ri
And on the letters.
It stays when the curtain goes up.
But at that moment, the girls are just posing.
So you'd cut the animation and light the faces.
To me, it's madness, it's much too quick.
When the curtain goes up, we'd see only silhouett
Then the girls take their places,
sing and stay there.
This is when lighting the faces makes sense,
because it lasts.
I understand your idea of the first image but it
No animation of the letters.
It has to "open", possibly with some smoke.
The opening could be a maxi-shock.
Minus three, approximately...
Two doubles...
Silicone rubber...
Bust size...
I'll see about the straps when you're on stage.
Right now, they're adjustable.
Let me see the back.
If the straps are too stretched,
the back sags down, one can't see the curve.
So you should...
I think... it's all right.
Let's try it with the fringes.
Where are they?
I don't know.
I'll get the fringes from Roselyne...
Half an inch there.
That's better.
You were too close.
Try to adjust, approximately...
If it's too high, you adjust.
Look for the right position.
You're not centered, girls.
Same here: it's nicer with only the buttocks pres
Stick the bust out.
You look like a pile of pudding.
Right, thank you!
Keep playing with your fingers, sensual little fi
You're not listening!
lam!
Diagonally means your forearm to the light and a
Right! This is nice.
And here you have to throw your arm,
put the other on it.
As if you were designing the glove.
Don't do...
It has to be fluid, fluid...
You pull it and you stretch it and then... off.
Excellent, Liv.
I've always been a devoted admirer of the Crazy.
It was more than admiration, it was an obsession.
I've seen the show at least forty times,
I was always here, I sang the songs...
I can't do it now that I'm part of the team.
I play the music at home and my assistants go cra
they're fed up with "You told me I'm a good girl".
So I'm just very obsessional.
I've had various obsessions:
Saint-Laurent, Marlene Dietrich,
Helmut Newton, the Crazy...
The Crazy is one of my strongest obsessions.
And when I'm so obsessed with something,
I put my whole life in it.
I'm obsessed with details that may not interest P
who's more about another vision of femininity.
At a certain point,
he may have had some difficulties here.
Maybe because he's worked here too long,
with everybody interfering and having an opinion.
And since Philippe
is very democratic,
he tends to listen to everybody.
I don't.
I listen to maybe three people whom I believe in.
I may even be too much of a dictator.
So Ali, are you the co-director of the show?
The artistic director. Philippe is the director.
Artistic director because...
I came in much later than him,
and also because most of the acts were already co
The artistic director... takes care of the ideas.
Some acts we designed together.
Others have been designed by Philippe.
My job is to look at things in a new light.
I come after him.
I'm not a co-director. Philippe is the director.
The one who conceived most of the acts.
I'm just an artistic director.
But these are only titles.
At the end of the day,
everyone's involved in a way
that we don't know who's the boss between us.
But anyway... it's still Philippe who is... on top
He deserves it because of his talent and experien
the legitimacy that gives him rights.
Once again.
Same thing, let's go.
Go.
You were late again.
Sing in playback, girls.
You're right together with the one on the chair.
The friends arrive.
Where's the other friend?
There's another one. Number 6.
Too early with the hand, Linda.
Screen!
It's nice if they continue to sing.
Two acts will become classics.
They're purely Crazy.
They're brand new and totally Crazy at the same t
You'll have to see it to understand.
Philippe captured the essence of our brand.
While creating something... almost revolutionary.
One of the acts is...
Mr Bernardin from his grave would say:
If I were still here, I'd have done that one.
Which one?
"Blushing With Desire".
Mr Bernardin had his own definition of eroticism.
What's yours?
The ultimate thing is to suggest.
To seduce, without offering oneself. Restraint.
I agree with Mr Bernardin:
it happens through frustration and imagination.
Through dreams, also. Dreaming is important.
And this is...
our trademark, in a way.
The Crazy has created,
celebrated and refined a certain form in the art.
I think... an art to enhance...
to glorify and set off
women and women's games of erotic seduction
in a way that is extremely
sophisticated and inspiring...
Inspiring for women.
Some may not agree with me,
but I think that the Crazy, somehow...
I'm not saying that women like it more...
it's probably the only place today
where naked dancers on stage...
really attract women!
We have many women fans, many women clients.
There's a key here.
When women posess the key to eroticism and enjoy
men benefit from it.
That's how it goes anyway, sorry, at least for me.
The key to eroticism is the woman.
It goes both ways.
Both ways. Absolutely.
Could we see now...
Light blue instead of red?
No.
Let's run through other colours to see which one
would suit us best.
Can you scroll the colours of the sidelights
to see which colour could be better?
This is too much.
Too red.
Here you lose the red on the rope.
Not bad.
Dark blue.
Congo blue is not bad.
It's interesting.
We'll go with "Stars of Paris".
This one is perfect.
One, two...OK
Done.
OK?
Come on...
Last one.
Ali, are you particularly interested in costumes?
Not particularly. I'm interested in everything.
I may be more interested in costumes than Philipp
He's mainly a dancer,
and the bodies are his instruments.
I'm more interested in the ways people transfigur
Particularly in the way a woman
can transform herself to look like
the fantasy she has of herself.
It's amazing how women have the power,
using what nature gave them,
to display artifices, tricks and strategies.
They can transform themselves.
Beauty counts less than what you do with it.
When a woman is over twenty-five,
her beauty is something she earns and constructs.
My motto is: there are no ugly women.
Only women who refuse beauty
because they deny their femininity.
There are lazy women.
I think that any woman with the right assets
can go beyond what she was born with.
You may see girls who are beautiful
when they're young but don't age well.
They rely on the beauty they were given
without making any effort, and they lose their lo
They remain stuck to their image as little girls.
On the other hand, as we see it here...
Well, they're all beautiful.
But I often noticed that those of the girls
who objectively have a perfect anatomy
are not the best on stage:
they rely only on beauty.
The beauty they are born with gives them self-con
They don't have to go beyond that.
While those who maybe have had complexes
have developed a strategy and a personality
that help them transcend their handicap.
It makes them more fascinating and mysterious on
There's despair,
a feeling that all the love on earth won't be eno
...Minus ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four
Ignition.
"Paris is at the Crazy"
"And the Crazy is Paris"
"The Sacred-Heart..."
"There is a Sacred-Heart in every Crazy-girl's he
"You see the Crazy-girls as soldiers"
"They are the soldiers of the Erotic Army"
"D-e-s-i-r-e!"
"The girls of the Crazy taste like champagne"
"Champagne tastes like the girls of the Crazy"
"Champagne flows"
"through your fingers"
"The girls of the Crazy!"
"Horse!"
"Paris is at the Crazy"
"And the Crazy is Paris"
"D-e-s-i-r-e!"
Crazy!
Best take.
Right. Let's have one more.
What is Nahia doing?
She doesn't understand.
Is it because you're new here?
Are you Spanish or what?
I've been working here for one year!
You're not like Nooka, Zula or Psykko...
Do you want to be "hop"? On Thursday?
Right?
Put in costume.
I'm not going to put it there,
I don't have enough space.
Go ahead, they are not here.
You freaked me out.
But yes... It's mine, we are going to put this aw
You really freaked me out this one.
Feel the air...
Nice!
We'll catch a cold.
Closed! On.
Fall in! On! Steady right!
Start steady
Look up! Still! By the right!
Quick mark... time!
And! Outside! Guards!
Eyes... up!
Stand at ease!
Shut!
Salute!
Down!
"Zoo be zoo be zoo..."
"Zoo be zoo be...means that I love you,"
"Zoo be zoo be zoo..."
"Zoo be zoo be...means that I love you,"
"Zoo be zoo be...means that I love you."
"Zoo be zoo be zoo"
Changes.
No, no,no. There are no changes.
It's a diapo, there are no changes in leopards.
But in "lnfrared"...
But no.
I don't like it. Sorry, girls.
What?
The choreography sticks too much to the music.
That's good.
This comes from "Jungle".
With a girl behind.
That comes from "Evolution".
It's a pitty because it's really good.
And Lumi she turns on her left.
- I love that. - Beautiful.
Impressive.
Yeah, it's better with two girls.
I like the idea of the "leopard" lighting on the
Why is he mulling over the pursuit...
Yes but it's in the Prelude.
- The lighting is great! - Beautiful!
They're like panthers.
We can't see the girl behind! Too bad!
She's dead.
She's spent.
We should have seen her die!
I'll explain... you all understand French?
Let me explain how the audition goes.
It's very simple, don't stress out.
It's really simple.
You'll go on stage with just a G-string on.
And your shoes if you want.
You'll be on our stage with nice lighting.
You'll have music and you'll improvise during one
When you've finished, you come back here. OK?
This audition is meant to see
your body proportions and physical aspect.
It's not about your dancing or performing capacit
We'll see who's a dancer and who's not anyway.
You don't have to warm up
or to do the splits or whatever.
Be pretty, classy, relaxed,
don't stress out.
And push your buttocks out.
OK?
She fainted before the audition!
The firemen came!
- Today? - Today.
What is happennig is that...
Could you please come and watch a second.
I don't know.
Thank you. Please stay on the stage.
Music off.
Can you take off your shoes?
Take position.
Put your knees together.
Profile.
Thank you.
Next.
Oh yeah!
Yeah it's fun...
I saw his waist and that he hadn't breasts
and I said Wow!
OK, good.
Thank you Maurizio.
Thank you.
We don't hire transsexuals.
I found it charming.
Please open the curtain, cut the house lights.
All the dancers on stage, line up, no shoes.
Quite a line.
Sorry, girls, you have to stay there.
We have to compare the heights.
I know you may feel idiotic...
So,0ne.
- The third. - The fourth.
Next, not sure, not sure... that one.
The fifth, the one with the blue G-string.
And that one.
Have them step forward.
Girls, I don't remember your names
and I'm all mixed up.
So, starting from the control booth...
Right, there.
Number two...
Number four...
Number five.
What's her name?
Olivia. I remember one name.
Next one.
Melissa, come forward.
And the last one, Tatiana.
We have six.
Won't you keep the Italian girl?
The one with the nice buttocks?
Nice indeed.
Until the rehearsal?
The one who dreams of joining the Crazy?
I don't like her.
- The Italian? - Right, true.
Those who are in front will remain,
the others may go and I'll join them soon.
Get together.
Olivia, you're small, but never mind.
Small is cute. It's not pejorative.
The number two looks like Kate Moss.
True.
Her legs are short.
It doesn't matter.
Can you please turn around?
Push your buttocks out.
Backwards, bend, bend, that's it.
More.
- More? - Yes.
How many Russians are there?
They're the best.
These two are the best, no?
A gap between the thighs.
Doesn't matter.
Profile, please.
She's beautiful.
Very cute. And she's got character.
To the dressing room.
I'll be right with you.
Not bad!
It's a supreme achievement of beauty under variou
For us, it has been a huge joy to work here...
When I'm in a rehearsal, I sometimes think:
Not only do I attend a real rehearsal,
but we're directing it!
I have to pinch myself to make sure I belong...
to this place of ultimate refinement, beauty and
- Did I answer your question? - Splendidly.
And now, in English, with the same eloquence.
Well it's very difficult to...
how do you say "résumer", to resume?
It's very difficult to sum up the show of the Cra
because it's in fact a different er...
side of the woman and the erotism,
defined initially by Bernardin.
So, it's not like a... "total story",
it's more a portion of desire that you receive,
but the thing is that I always...
when I first time I saw the Crazy Horse,
it was for me one of the most beautiful,
the most moving thing I ever saw in my life.
And I always think that everybody...
like really the French government should force ev
and see the Crazy Horse once in his life,
to understand how a woman can...
how the... what level of beauty a woman can reach,
how powerful it can be,
and how much it's much more about only desire,
it's about emotions that go beyond your mind,
that touch your unconscious and go through your v
I have goose bumps,
and I bring friends here
who had a preconceived idea of the Crazy Horse,
who thought that it was a revue for Japanese tour
who came here, and...
people from the art, big actress, great directors
who came here and who were entranced.
And I have friends who come here
and who cry when they see such a level of beauty.
And for us to be able to work on this place
and sometimes realize that in fact
we are at this highest level of...
beauty and feminity that could ever be reached
and we are in fact part of that,
is something that is really thrilling
and we have to pinch ourselves to realize that it
So it's not... we cannot reduce the Crazy Horse t
it really is something that's beyond any...
I rarely see something... feel something...
You can have the same impact when you look at "Sh
or Fellini's or Fassbinder movie,
or Michael Powell, who inspire us for the show -
yes, when you are in front of those piece of art,
you can have this thrill.
And I had something similar with the Crazy Horse.
In your eyes
I shall drown. May I?
To drown in your eyes is a happiness.
I'll come and say:
I love you so much.
May I?
No, it's not easy to love. It's hard, very hard.
I'll come close to a steep cliff.
Will you catch me in time?
If I go away, will you write to me?
I can't be without you. I want to be with you.
Not for a minute, not for a month. Forever.
All my life, do you understand?
I'm afraid of your answer.
Answer me, but don't say a word.
Answer me with your eyes.
Do you love me?
If you do, I promise
that you'll be happy with me forever.
If you don't, then I beg you,
don't look at me, don't kill me.
If you want to love someone else, do it.
But remember me just a little.
I'll go on loving you. Agreed?
Like it or not, I'll love you
and I'll always be there for you
whenever you need me.
"Crazy. .
"Paris..."
"Paris comes to the Crazy"
"The Crazy is Paris"
"The Eiffel Tower..."
"The Eiffel Tower is all lit up like a girl of th
"The Crazy is Paris"
"Paris comes to the Crazy"
"What is your name?"
"D-e-s-i-r-e!"
"You'll dream of the Crazy naked in your bed"
"The girls of the Crazy will watch over you"
"D-e-s-i-r-e!"
"The girls of the Crazy taste like champagne"
"Champagne tastes like the girls of the Crazy"
"Champagne flows through your fingers"
"The girls of the Crazy!"
"Paris comes to the Crazy"
"and the Crazy is Paris."
"The Sacred-Heart"
"There's a Sacred-Heart in every Crazy's girl!"
"You saw Crazy's girls like soldiers"
"They are the soldiers of Erotica army,"
"D-e-s-i-r-e!"
"The girls of the Crazy taste like champagne"
"Champagne tastes like the girls of the Crazy"
"Champagne flows through your fingers"
"The girls of the Crazy!"
"Paris comes to the Crazy"
"and the Crazy is Paris."
"D-e-s-i-r-e!"
Crazy!