Moulin Rouge (2001)
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Reviews Counted: 164 Fresh: 129 Rotten:35 Average Rating: 7.1/10
Consensus: A love-it-or-hate-it experience, Moulin Rouge is all style, all giddy, over-the-top spectacle. But it's also daring in its vision and wildly original. more
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Synopsis:
Cross LA BOHÈME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending MOULIN ROUGE. The film, which premiered as the opener to the 2001 Cannes Film Festival, is a musical set in 1899 Paris at the... [More]
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Screenwriter: Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann
Producer: Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron
Composer: Craig Armstrong
Screenwriter: Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann
Producer: Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron
Composer: Craig Armstrong
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04/27/07 03:15 AM
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One of the year's best films: This tragi-comic musical is Luhrmann's most audaciously innovative feature, one that creates its own hightened world, aggressively defying historical authenticity and the established conventions of Hollywood musicals.
01/28/07 05:26 PM
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05/26/06 03:16 AM
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02/09/06 03:16 AM
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'Gorgeously decadent, massively contrived, and gloriously superficial.'
03/22/05 07:43 PM
Giving this film more gravity would have sunk it like the Titanic; like a pop song, it floats on hot air. It's risky, gutsy, and (how rare) entertaining.
01/15/05 10:43 PM
Baz Luhrmann has created the most innovative movie musical since, well, his last one -- William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet.
06/22/04 08:00 AM
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12/31/03 05:21 PM
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12/15/03 05:21 PM
If one is able to give oneself over to the heady mix of improbable fantasy that Luhrman paints with his broad brush, MOULIN ROUGE can be something akin to ecstasy.
10/30/03 05:17 PM
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09/05/03 08:18 AM
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05/22/03 05:21 PM
Nicole Kidman is absolutely stunning in this film . . . MacGregor is equally charismatic and heartbreaking . . . has the rare ability to stir every emotion in the human soul
03/20/03 02:38 AM
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