Stars Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman.
Running time 122 minutes.
Year 2001.
Country Australia.
"The greatest thing you"ll ever know is just to love and be loved in return" .
Set in Paris 1900, Moulin Rouge is a story about beauty, freedom, truth and above all love. The start of the movie is energetic and enthusiastic beyond all beliefs, which moved onto being melodramatic and catastrophic. There is a lot of comedy in the story and is extremely entertaining for the audience. The costumes are well-designed and authentic to the period.
With his previous films William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet and Strictly Ballroom, Baz Luhrmann exhibited his penchant for lurid and bold filmmaking, but with Moulin Rouge he has taken his flights of fantasy to new heights. To have characters set within the "baudy" and bohemian turn of the century Paris, suddenly bursting into refrains of the modern song, Elton John's Your Song is a leap few other filmmakers would attempt, let alone complete, but it's to Luhrmann's genius that he succeeds. There were other modern tools used by Luhrmann in the movie, for example props - such as hand guns of present time were used.
The main character, Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young English writer who has moved to Paris to experience the exciting bohemian life and to write about love, there is only one problem, that he's never been in love. All that changes when he meets the star of the Moulin Rouge, Satine.
Satine (Nichole Kidman) is the courtesan from the Moulin Rouge. A young, beautiful woman who only has one rule in life - never to fall in love, however that changes when she mistakes Christian for the "Duke".
The Duke is a jealous and power-hungry man who pays lots of money on the condition he has all "rights" to Satine. He manages to persuade Harold Sidler (Jim Broadbent) to give him the deeds to the Moulin Rouge, which gives him more power and more knowledge to what goes on.
