SnoopyStyle 16 April It's Paris. He befriends Toulouse-Lautrec John Leguizamo. It's got Baz Luhrmann's grand vision. It's a modern day musical.
McGregor and Kidman are surprisingly good as singers. It's still not my taste but it's got the style right. Its excesses are what sells this movie.
Anything less would reduce this to no more than musical theater. The story is melodramatic but it is in keeping with the tone of the movie. Even using modern songs as burlesque music seems somehow fitting if somewhat weird. Hitchcoc 2 March This is a true experience. I was halfway through the movie. I still didn't understand it, but I sat in its lush glow and vivacity.
Baz Luhrmann threw together a mass of elements into a soup that will make some people hate it and others love it. For whatever reason, I walked out of the theater exhilarated. First, we have the love story. Satine and her young writer. We know it is doomed from the time she coughs into her handkerchief.
Then there is the theatre. It's what we might see something like this in our dreams. Then there are the French painters, mugging and wandering through, stealing scenes. Through in some contemporary music mixed with music created for the film.
It's a hodgepodge. I remember a story by Ray Bradbury where a Chinese emperor doesn't want to face reality. I believe it is called "The Flying Machine. This is like one of those wondrous machines. I don't even know if we can form an emotional attachment for the characters because they are like dolls moving through the amazing numbers and visual delights.
I remember trying to tell someone why I liked this, and by the time I finished, I could see that he would not go near this movie.
And yet, for some of us, it reels us in and holds us to the very end. Go figure. English writer Christain finds himself introduced to the heady pleasures of the Moulin Rouge burlesque and to the fabulous beauty of the tragic Satine. Christian finds himself in a case of mistaken identify when Satine seduces him instead of the Duke the potential backer for Satine's chance to star in a play.
Before the mistake is realised Christian is in love and must struggle with envy while Satine plays along with the Duke in return for his money. But will love win out? Maybe I suffered from the hype but I was a tad disappointed in this film.
At the heart it has a beautiful love story between Satine and Christian which has added spice due to her commitment to the Duke and her potential death from consumption. This side of the story plays well but the rest of it is almost like a cartoon. I found that this took away from my enjoyment slightly as it pushed some scenes from being imaginative and different into being silly.
That said I still enjoyed the film. The central story is fantastic and visually it is amazing. Occasionally it doesn't work but it is audacious in the attempt. The cast are mostly great. Jim Broadbent is good value as Harold, the club owner and Roxburgh gives a wonderfully smarmy performance as the Duke.
Overall I thought this was a brave, inventive film that has a wonderful story at it's heart. However it is maybe hyped too much and I found that the cartoon antics of some of the characters were irritating rather than involving. But I still really enjoyed it! Another reviewer on IMDb describes the picture as a musical for people who don't like musicals.
I think I can say that pretty much sums it up for me. I found the movie to be colorful, clever, whimsical, absurd, bawdy and ultimately triumphant. What I wasn't expecting following an introduction of a Paris setting was the overly anachronistic use of song snippets from a vast array of sources ranging from 'The Sound of Music' to the Beatles, Madonna, Elton John, and U2, with an homage of sorts thrown in to Bowie's Diamond Dogs.
It all works to add up to an entertaining couple of hours marked by an explosive use of color that's simply dazzling. If you need to know about the story, it's all about freedom, beauty, truth and love, emphasis on love with an accent provided by entrepreneur Zidler Jim Broadbent punching out The Duke Richard Roxburgh. Prepare to be surprised by actors who can sing, as Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman handle their tunes skillfully as star crossed lovers coming to terms with impending disaster.
I'd say more but other reviewers have done so more competently. I'm just surprised by how much I liked this picture, and if you're of a similar frame of mind, I'd offer the advice of the showman ringmaster who said at one point - " I couldn't have said it better.
A poet Ewan McGregor falls for a beautiful courtesan Nicole Kidman whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources. Some people are really hard on Baz Luhrman, and I can understand why. It is easy to fault him for style over substance, or for taking classics like "Romeo and Juliet" and twisting them in ways we may not necessarily like.
But I am not a detractor of his. Maybe "Strictly Ballroom" is not my cup of tea, but this film "Moulin Rouge! The colors, the clever re-interpretation of modern music. And some solid casting. Nicole Kidman has a handful of good roles and many others that are completely forgettable. Probably most actors can say the same thing. Luckily, this is one of her memorable ones. But otherwise, the movie isn't bad.
Like another flick, "A Knight's Tale", it uses 20th century popular culture to tell a story that happened a long time ago. And the ending was a little anti-climactic. Considering that many of the songs used here were once spoofed by "Weird Al" Yankovic, it seems that they could make a spoof of this movie featuring his versions. I'd pay to see that. While he is there, he not only has passion to create new art for the rich audiences of men, along with his friends and co-creators including Toulouse-Lautrec John Leguizamo , but he starts a passionate affair with the highest paid star and most famous courtesan, Satine Golden Globe winning, and Oscar nominated Nicole Kidman.
Their romance is carried out in the club, but what makes their love a tragedy is the nasty Duke Richard Roxburgh saying he will only pay for the show, Spectacular Spectacular if Satine is his, love is forbidden in the Underworld, and more tragic, she is slowly dying of her illness internal bleeding. The ending is not only a fantastic musical with passionate singing from McGregor and Kidman well, all their singing is magnificent , but it has the tear-jerking ending with Satine dying in Christian's arms, and he finishes his story about this he was writing about it.
I think the film is also clever for the period story and characters singing modern love and pop culture songs in int, e. Very good! Being a fan of the film, I was pumped to see this, especially after reading a few reviews which raved about it. Wow, what a letdown.
Yes, part of the reason I was so disappointed with this was that it bore little resemblance to biography of artist Toulouse-Lautrec which was the centerpiece of the classic film. Later, when I was informed that this movie was not intended to be a re-make but a totally new movie with its own story, I felt a little better and watched the movie again. Sorry, but it still sucked! Oh, the visuals were great, especially in the beginning of the movie.
I loved all the color and wild visuals in that first 20 minutes, but that was it. After that, it settled into a frustrating love story and the bogged down drastically the rest of the way. As for the music, there are too many slow numbers sung by mediocre singers like Nicole Kidman and Ethan Hawke, the two romantic interests in the film.
They weren't bad singers, but so-so wasn't good enough for a major motion picture production like this. And, being a big fan of Toulouse-Lautrec's artwork and fascinating history, I didn't appreciate him being shown as a clownish transvestite-type character.
That was disgusting, and really tells you about this film. As they say, "too bad; this could have been so much better. Tweekums 10 May This musical opens in with Christian, a writer, working on a script based on his own experiences in Paris in the past year. We then move back a year and see his story. He is a young British writer who has moved to Paris to experience the Bohemian lifestyle; particularly that at the titular Moulin Rouge theatre.
He starts writing for a group who are preparing a play. Families can talk about why Satine enjoys her job as a courtesan or if she actually does.
Can anyone really be happy pursuing fame using one's physical charms? What attracts her to Christian and vice versa? Why is Hollywood enamored of opposites-attract themes? Are Satine and Christian truly destined for each other? What were some of the ways in which the movie went beyond its setting, especially in terms of music? How does this movie exemplify the idea of "entertainment for entertainment's sake"? What are the many ways in which this movie seeks to provide escape from reality rather than an attempt to imitate or depict reality?
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Who is Christian? A man who embodies longing with his eyes and sighs--whose very essence, whose entire being, is composed of need for Satine. With the Duke, one is reminded of silent films in which the titles said "The Duke," and then he sneered at you. The movie is all color and music, sound and motion, kinetic energy, broad strokes, operatic excess. While it might be most convenient to see it from the beginning, it hardly makes any difference; walk in at any moment and you'll quickly know who is good and bad, who is in love and why--and then all the rest is song, dance, spectacular production numbers, protestations of love, exhalations of regret, vows of revenge and grand destructive gestures.
It's like being trapped on an elevator with the circus. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Kylie Minogue as Green Fairy. Ewan McGregor as Christian. Jim Broadbent as Zidler. Christine Anu as Arabia. Nicole Kidman as Satine. John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec.
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