Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) (DVD)

For Valentines Day I decided to rent a romance from the library and cuddle up in front of in for the evening with my hubby. My dad, brother and sister went to see it when it came out in the cinema and came back raving about it. It didn't look like my cup of tea but as it was Valentines Day I thought I'd give it a whirl. It is hard to know where to start with this film. There is so much packed into this movie. I really liked this film. A large part ...
...be different. I like romantic comedies and most that I like are very similar and predictable. While I do like your regular romantic comedies, this film is in a league of it's own. It is packed with colour, excitement, comedy, passion, music, fun and emotions. It is like one big ride that takes you through highs lows and loop the loops. I had no idea what to expect when I sat down to watch this. I only had my family's recommendations to go by and ...

L.Yeomans 15.02.2004 (16.02.2004) · Read full review
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...a play at the infamous Moulin Rouge. Hailed as a writing genius, Christian must persuade the delectable Satine to agree to the production but finds himself instantly in love with the vision of loveliness. Being France though it's never as simple as it seems and following a misunderstanding, Christian is mistaken for rich financier the Duke of Worcester who Satine's boss, Zidler, is hoping will pay for a refurbishment for the Moulin Rouge. Caught ...
...Fundamentally a love story, Moulin Rouge comes as something of a shock. I had no idea what to expect and with only the faintest inkling that it was musically based, I feared another slush-fest like Grease or something equally hideous. Is that what I got? No way. From the first frame, the film is decidedly different and instantly drums up images of 1900 Paris. The visual style brings to mind the images and atmosphere of early French cinema even down ...

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Moulin Rouge is a classic love story, given the Spectacular Spectacular treatment by visionary director Baz Luhrmann. It is a musical of such magnificent proportions, of such audacity, of such colour and such exuberance that I fell in love with it when I first saw it at the cinema, and which I had to buy for my DVD collection when I found it on BOGOF at HMV earlier in the week. I couldn't quite believe my luck, having found out just how good the ...
...at the notorious nightclub, the Moulin Rouge. It is this first night there that Christian's life changes forever when he comes face to face with beautiful dancer/courtesan Satine, the sparkling diamond in Harold Ziddler's successful club. Satine mistakes the poet for a wealthy Duke who Ziddler is hoping will provide investment into the club, and takes him up to her room where she appears to fall for him in return. All too soon though, it becomes ...

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...title for my opinion of Moulin Rouge, though I read a couple of opinions about the film, I just wasn’t expecting what I saw, but as you may guess I found it to be superb. ~~The Facts~~ In this musical/comedy/tragedy, set in and around the Moulin Rouge night club in the 1900’s, Christian tells his story about coming to Paris, to the bohemian lifestyle, to become a writer and write about love that he’s never experienced. He soon gets involved with ...
...the star attraction of the Moulin Rouge, to star in it, Satine herself wants be an actress and she and Christian become involved, however The Duke is investing the money and he to wants Satine. Staring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor and Jim Broadbent, it was directed by Baz Luhrmann, rated 12, (15 for DVD), and runs for 122 minutes. ~~The Film~~ To give you an idea of what this film is like then the best way to describe it is a mixture of, The Adventures ...

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Moulin Rouge - translated means Red Mill but this film sure ain't about grinding flour! I was lucky enough to see the film before UK release in Adelaide back in June last year. I wasn't sure what to expect - the Voulez Vous Couchez music video looked a bit raunchy so I had it in my head there would be lots of sex (you know what imagination is!) A 20th Century Fox film directed by Baz Luhrmann and brilliantly choreographed by John O'Connell it stars ...
...in a Parisian nightclub (The Moulin Rouge)back at the turn of the 20th century. Ewen Macgregor looks wonderful as the innocent young aspiring writer who falls in love with her. Jim Broadbent gives a brilliant performance as the owner of the nightclub. To begin with the film is very startling - lots of colour - shots flashing from one scene to another - a riot of sound and sights - 'how long can I deal with this?' I wondered. This settles down (a ...

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...town of Monmarte, Paris where Moulin Rouge, the famous or infamous nightclub resides. The nightclub is owned by Zidler (Jim Broadbent) who is incorrigible. He meets some friends who are nonconformists with a bohemian attitude. This group of friends is led by a dwarf Toulouse Lautrec (John Leguizamo), who convinces Christian to be the writer in the group. They arrange for an encounter with Satine (Nicole Kidman) who is a famous courtesan. She knows ...
...but she is a great actress and she is also well known for her charms and beauty. Christian and his group of friends want to make Satine the female lead of their production called "Spectacular Spectacular". Satine mistakes Christian for the Duke (Richard Roxburg) and falls in love with him but when the Duke comes to know about this he gets possessive and well tries every trick in the book to make Satine his exclusive property. The climax is dramatic ...

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...the story of the infamous Moulin Rouge and his one and only love Satine (Nicole Kidman). This leads to the opening scene of the Moulin Rouge. Baz Luhrmann (the man who brought us advice on sunscreen in the form of that number one hit) definitely loves having every part of the screen jam-packed with action and this is apparent from the first scene inside the infamous Paris club Moulin Rouge. You will be hard pressed to try and tear yourself away from ...
...‘Spectacular Spectacular’ and turn the Moulin Rouge into a theatre even though she truly loves Christian. This is an ironic story line as it is true to their lives but only the duke can’t see it. The duke realises the secret affair between Satine and Christian and he demands that the ending of the production is changed and some of the content is so that he is not made to look stupid as everyone else would see how naïve he was. Satine ...

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...a hotel across from the Moulin Rouge, a night club – host to some of the most colourful characters you are ever likely to meet – this is where Christian meets Satine – a beautiful courtesan and a wannabe actress who is willing to pay anything to realise her dream (i.e. marry a duke (Richard Roxburgh) who will give her fame). What she didn’t bargain on, however, was falling in love – with the wrong person. Take these beginnings and mix in a wide ...
...to the Duke is quite hilarious) such as ‘diamonds are a girls best friend’, ‘Smells like Teen Spirit’, ‘Roxanne’ but to name a few, sang by the cast (including McGregor and Kidman) and you do have a very contemporary musical that outshines by a million miles the current dross that is inhabiting our cinema screens if only because of its uniqueness and vivacity. The speed and the cinematography are exceptional. I have never seen a film so excitingly ...

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Moulin Rouge has topped my all-time favourite film list. It's one of the most CrEaTiVe, DaZzLiNg, ExHiLaRaTiNg and SeXy films of today - it's a whole new cinematic experience and you won't have seen anything like it before. The director, Baz Luhrman has created a whole new film genre, making Hollywood musicals trendy again while at the same time bringing it bang up to date with a cleverly modern score, a star-studded cast, and a brilliant team of ...
...poverty, crime, pimps… and The Moulin Rouge. The Moulin Rouge was a music hall, a nightclub where the aristocrats went at night to enjoy the frivolities of the can-can girls, the music and the excitement. In his shabby lodgings, Christian tries to write but he is disturbed by an unconscious Argentinean falling through his ceiling. Bursting through his door comes the other Bohemians. They’d all been practicing a play upstairs called ‘Spectacular ...

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...den of inequity of the Moulin Rouge. Here his job is to convince Satine the courtesan of the theatre to star and promote the play. The meeting with Satine however goes more smoothly than planned, after she mistakes Christian for the wealthy Duke of Worcester, who Satine has been told to seduce in to providing money to refurbish the Moulin Rouge, by Harry Sidler boss. Christian and Satine retire to her room, where Satine the smouldering temptress ...
...as no shock that they are disturbed and realising her mistake they are forced to pretend that they were rehearsing for the new play. With help from the other cast members that happened to spying on the pair, and enter at the opportune moment they act out the main parts of the play to the Dukes interest and with his interest gained he agrees to finance the play and the refurbishment, but on one condition that Satine become his wife. This is where ...

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...that there was an original Moulin Rouge out in the 1950s, 1953 if memory serves me correctly (?) The film tells the story of the Moulin Rouge – the infamous Paris nightclub where the rich and influential come to play with the young and beautiful of the entertainment underworld (to paraphrase one of the lines in the film). Nicole Kidman plays the part of the star performer of the Moulin Rouge, the most beautiful of all the girls who “strut ...
...to see them. In order that the club can raise more money, a theatre group (including a young writer named Christian - Ewan McGregor) wants to put on a musical show, and this, among other things, involves transforming the club into a theatre. A Duke has been invited along to finance the show, and in return for his investment, he expects the “services” (use your imagination!) of the star of the show, Satine (Nicole Kidman). This is all ...

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Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! is the story of Satine and Christian, a would-be-actress courtesan and an aspiring, penniless writer respectively. It is a love story, a tragedy, a comedy, a musical, a farce, a fairy tale and a feast for the eyes and ears. It is, in a word, WONDERFUL. The Story ========= Christian (Ewan McGregor) is an aspiring writer who goes to Paris to pursue his ambition and live the Bohemian romantic ideal of beauty, truth and ...
...Spectacular!’, a vehicle for the Moulin Rouge’s most famous courtesan, Satine (Nicole Kidman). Christian and Satine fall in love, but she is promised to a rich but smarmy Duke who is to fund the play. He holds the deeds to the Moulin Rouge and will close the play and the venue down if he cannot have her for his own. Thus begins Christian and Satine’s affair which must be kept secret. Needless to say, they are found out, and the ...

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...Zidler, the proprietor of the Moulin Rouge nightclub. The plot is simple – Christian (McGregor) lands a writing job at the Moulin Rouge, which is all very handy as he lives downstairs from a motley collection of bohemians who perform on stage at that very club, and can see the huge red windmill on its roof from his window. These performers include the alcoholic dwarf Toulouse Lautrec, and a narcoleptic Argentinean acrobat who has designs on ...
...idea of investing in the Moulin Rouge. However, in a case of mistaken identity soon reveals that Christian has a gift for wonderful lyrical love poetry (most of which you will recognise), and Satine falls in love with him, only to realise that he is not the Duke, but a penniless bohemian. Woe. Disaster. But surely love will triumph in the end? Well, the characters really are paper-thin, but I would say that in this case, that doesn’t really ...

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Moulin Rouge is surprising to say the least; it takes risks that immediately open it up to criticism, supplying stunning visuals, flamboyant melodies and excessiveness that borders on the dangerous. It is designed to be head turning, and at times with its dizzying speed it seems foolish, almost ludicrous as we almost fall into the kaleidoscope that is Moulin Rouge. Set in Paris during the turn of the century, we enter the sordid nightlife of the ...
...the reality that exists in Moulin Rouge. Satine becomes the central character in both as she falls in love with a lowly character while being pursued by men of high status. All throughout the movie, her health seems in question and this does form an obvious part of the dramatic ending. The story has elements of Shakespeare’s tragedies (perhaps most resembling Romeo and Juliet), although the storyline is far simpler and easier to follow than ...

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...decades (certainly in my lifetime), Moulin Rouge is a novel, inventive take on the genre which deserves to become a classic, and will no doubt inspire a number of imitators. The past few years have seen several attempts at using existing songs in a new musical context (Everyone Says I Love You and Love’s Labours Lost are the most obvious examples), but this is the most successful of these. A bizarre variety of styles and sources make it into the ...
...Juliet created high expectations and Moulin Rouge doesn’t disappoint. From the ‘retro’ opening, with curtains pulling back to show a grainy Twentieth Century Fox logo, followed by an unusual cinematic technique which I find hard to describe, part tracking shot, with a bizarre use of filters and back projection. Or something. I’m no cinematographer, I can only tell you it looked fantastic. The cinematography throughout is excellent, making me wish ...

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