Moulin Rouge (2001)
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Musical/Performing Arts, Drama and Romance. 2 hrs. 06 min.
Rated PG-13 for sexual content.

Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo, Richard Roxburgh.

Directed by Baz Luhrmann.
Produced by Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron and Martin Brown.
Written by Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce.

Distributor: Twentieth Century Fox   More Credits

Release Date: May 18, 2001 NY/LA; June 1, 2001 Wide
 
Synopsis
Christian, a young writer with a magical gift for poetry, defies his bourgeois father by moving to the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. He is taken in by the absinthe- soaked artist Toulouse- Lautrec, whose party- hard life centers aound the Moulin Rouge, a world of sex, drugs, electricity and the shocking Can-Can. Christian falls into a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with Satine, the Sparkling Diamond, the most beautiful courtesan in Paris and star of the Moulin Rouge.


Bill's Comments

This movie had its good points, but it just didn't hit home with me. The beginning is too hectic, the ending moves too slow. The voices of the stars are very good - I had no idea that either one of them could sing. I have always enjoyed musicals, but this one seems just a little too bizarre.