Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) (DVD)

Moulin Rouge is a veritable visual feast. The first comment I made to my friend when we came out of the cinema after seeing this was 'I'm glad I came to the cinema to see it, rather than waiting for the video'. It's the kind of film I can't imagine would be the same on the small screen. I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it, and I laughed at it, and with it, but it didn't blow me away, I wouldn't say, you have to rush out to see it, and in some ways I was a ...
...the owner of the famous Moulin Rouge (Broadbent) needs to keep his backers sweet and lures them with the beautiful girls he has to offer. It is basically a love story against the odds with its highs and lows set to contemporary music numbers. The plot though, is almost a sideline, which is possibly the strangest aspect of the film. The set piece show routines are great and the feeling is almost that you are watching a play rather than a film, which ...

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Moulin Rouge almost immediately reminded me of Terry Gilliam's Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1989). It's excessively loud, theatrical, full of slapstick and garish. It is however too sweet and sentimental to be down right vulgar. At times its even touchingly romantic. It has also been made by a crew of seemingly fearless film technicians who use everything they can afford to put on the screen-on the screen. You have no idea how far this film will ...
...to John Huston's 1952 Moulin Rouge. Moulin Rouge 2001 is a musical by borrowing and twisting, in sometimes hilariously, sometimes alarming and sometimes unabashedly campy ways, pop music of (mainly) the last thirty years. What it does with Elton John's Your Song, Madonna's Like a Virgin, Paul McCartney's Silly Love Songs, and The Police's Roxanne is utterly audacious. If you hold these songs as sacred you will HATE this film. No, not all the songs ...

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I wish I could. Now this must be a record, me, writing two reviews in one week, but after watching this video last night, the film was so good I was compelled to write a review today. I love Baz Luhrmann's work, Strictly Ballroom and Romeo and Juliet are two of my favourite films. Actually I can't quite remember why I didn't see this film in the cinema, probably couldn't get anyone to go with me (everyone 1 2 3 awe poor heth). To be honest I am ...
...it on video, anyway last night after writing my Scooby Doo review I sat down to watch it. Now I have admit the first 15 minutes were quite hard to get into. I thought the film had to settle itself in, it jumped around a bit and I can't deny, when Ewan McGregor first breaks in to 'the hills are alive with the sound of sound of music' it just felt odd. However once the plot gets in to the 'Moulin Rouge' that's when everything starts falling in to ...

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...the answer! The Film Moulin Rouge is set in the 1890's, in Paris (although filmed in Australia) at the famous parisian nightclub The Moulin Rouge, famous for its wild women, nights, opium dens, and Bohemian artists. Ewan MacGregor plays the penniless poet, Christian, who is brought in to write the show, Spectacular, Spectacular at The Moulin Rouge - thanks to Toulouse, the bohemian artist who befriends Christian, when his fellow artist, The Argentinian, ...
...is taken to the wild Moulin Rouge, where Moulin Rouge's owner - Harold Zidler (The Marvellous Jim Broadbent) is hosting the wild festivities, including the can-can and the song 'Diamonds are a girl's best friend' sang by the Sparkling Diamond of the Moulin rouge, Satine, the courtisan (who sells her love) played by the outstanding Nicole Kidman. Christian meets Satine and they fall in love, but Satine is pledged to sleep with the Duke (Richard Roxburgh), ...

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...very disrept=utable dive called the Moulin Rouge. Their writer isn't much good, and Christian soon finds he has the job. But first the must convince the Moulin Rouge to take their show. They plan to win over the club's star - Satine (Nicole Kidman) and so enter the fabulous world of dance, scantily clad women and very rich men. Satine and Christain fall in love, but she is a courtesan, and that night she also meets a Duke who will fund the show in ...
...as the 'ringmaster' at the Moulin Rouge" - all the characters are superbly rendered, even the ones that get very little attention. Visually this is stunning - lavish, strange, beautifully shot, it's moody, colourful and exotic, a real feast for the eyes. The songs. On the soundtrack are "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" "Like a Virgin" "Lady Marmalade" "The Show Must Go On" "Your song" plus some Nirvana and a bit from "The Sound of Music". Both ...

Bryn_Pearson 24.09.2001 · Read full review
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...ballroom and Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge is in my opinion the best film of 2001. How Baz didn’t win the award for best director at the BAFTA’S I will never know but anyway……… We actually have an on going dispute in our household about what the title actually means in French. I believe that Moulin Rouge means Red windmill, I vaguely recall my GCSE French lessons and during one of them which I actually attended I have a hazy recollection of Madame ...
...Moulin meant Windmill. My mother however(who would argue that black is white, I hasten to add!) argues that Moulin does not mean windmill, she is not sure what the word means in French but it definatley isn’t that! If anybody actually knows what Moulin Rouge means in French please inform us so that we can settle this petty squabble (or alternatvley just agree with me that it means red windmill otherwise I lose a tenner!) I would have thought that ...

KarmababyUK 16.03.2002 · Read full review
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The story in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge! (and you leave the exclamation mark out at your peril) is Camille, the Dumas story that forms the basis of La Traviata and has been reworked numerous times. Luhrmann and co-writer Craig Pearce's take on the story is as distinctive as their 1996 Romeo and Juliet which starred Leonardo di Caprio. Having just seen the film I'm brimming with things to say and to stop it sprawling too much I'll address each aspect ...
...under the spell of the Moulin Rouge's star performer and courtesan Satine (Nicole Kidman). She is destined for the wealthy Duke of Monroth (Richard Roxburgh), a fate that is formalised when the owner of the Moulin Rouge Harold Zidler (Jim Broadbent) signs over exclusive access to Satine and the deeds of the venue in return for substantial investment that will transform the Moulin Rouge into a twentieth-century theatre. The intrigue centres around ...

oedipus 07.10.2001 · Read full review
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...worth the time and effort. Moulin Rouge is unlike anything you’ll have ever seen previously in mainstream cinema: a remarkable eclectic pastiche of visual, verbal and musical anachronisms that somehow manages to keep itself together. The main body of the film is told in flashback: Ewan McGregor, a struggling English writer in the fin-de-siecle hubbub of the 19th century, moves to find fortune in the Montmartre Quartier of Paris, to live near ...
...fields of editing and cinematography, Moulin Rouge is highly progressive. Luhrmann is more interested in artifice rather than naturalism, and the film is as far from the naturalistic as it is safe to go without losing its humanity and charm. Luhrmann relies heavily on the sympathy of his audience. One of last year’s most imaginative and beautiful films, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon insisted on the audience’s complicity from the outset. ...

james.bridgeman 14.09.2001 (26.06.2002) · Read full review
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...about in the writer/director's mind. Moulin Rouge was always going to be something different right for the first viewings of the trailers. The film is based around a flamboyant Paris nightclub called the Moulin Rouge. The lavish shows put on are run by Harold Zidler (Jim Broadbent) and are certainly the best thing in town. A young poet Christian (Ewan McGregor) comes to Paris and gets drawn into writing a musical for the moulin rouge. Here he falls ...
...the musical and turning the moulin rouge into a theatre. Naturally things go wrong, love goes down troubled paths with devestating results but sometimes amusing ones as well. The first thing to say is that this isn't a film in the conventional sense. In fact it's more of an elaborate stage play/pantomime. The love story plot creates a thin backdrop to some showstopping musical numbers. What is used here is modern musical numbers in an old 1800's ...

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...can only get better and Moulin Rouge leads the way to a promising post summer season. I shouldn’t really class this as a post summer film. Moulin Rouge was set to be released in December 2000 but they decided to hold off to tweak with the final cut a bit more and get everything ‘just right’. It was then released at the Cannes film festival. The reaction was mixed to say the least. Some people fell in love with the film, heralding ...
...fairy absinthe and to the Moulin Rouge, the local place where men go to meet pretty ladies in skimpy costumes. The Moulin is a popular place and men come from all over Paris to view the delights, especially Satine (Nicole Kidman) who is the shining star of the Moulin. However it is apparent that all is not well, for however popular it is it still needs financial backing, as the owner Harold Zidler (Jim Broadbent), knows only too well. After a comic ...

3rdRockSatan 30.09.2001 · Read full review
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The Moulin Rouge is a film, the like of which I’ve never seen before. In places all I could think about was wanting to tell people to go and see this immediately. This is unusual, as normally whilst enjoying a film I’m totally enraptured, barely aware there is an outside world, let alone one I would wish to interact with. I must stress however that the story line is not what made the film so special. The plot is a standard tale of doomed ...
...centres on the nightclub the Moulin Rouge. Where every night the ‘rich and the powerful’ come to dance with and be entertained by the ‘young and the beautiful’. Owned by the showbusinessman opportunist Zidler (Jim Broadbent), he and the dancers dream of the day where they can turn the club into a proper theatre. Ewen McGregor as Christian is a penniless poet, fresh from England, hoping to join up with the children of the revolution ...

roons_y 07.09.2001 · Read full review
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Moulin Rouge has to be one of the most original and moving films I've ever seen. The reason I went to see it was because American Pie 2 was sold out, pretty gutted, we settled for Moulin Rouge -highly acclaimed, but, as a musical, not really my scene. Directed by Baz Luhrman; Moulin Rouge tells the story of a young English man from London who lives in Paris, Christian (Ewan MacGregor) is looking back on the last year he has spent in the city of ...
...in this village is the Moulin Rouge - a nightclub owned by Harry Zidler and employing many beautiful dancers. It starts with an unconscious Austrian falling through his ceiling, leading to the meeting with his new neighbours. Toulouse and his friends are writing a play but are to be honest; terrible at writing. When they hear Christian's talent for writing, they immediately employ him to bet their new writer. The Moulin Rouge is where they want their ...

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...pleasing some people… Yes, Moulin Rouge has all of the above, plus more. Of course, you all probably knew that, but I only saw the film for the first time last night, so indulge me a tad. So, what do you want to know? It’s a Baz Luhrmann film. It’s a 12 certificate – although my eleven year old daughter watched it and it seemed perfectly okay for her. It stars Ewan McGregor as Christian and Nicole Kidman as Satine and they ...
...is a courtesan at the Moulin Rouge. The theatre needs the backing of a rich duke to secure its future. The Duke needs the bonking of a poor courtesan to massage his ego. Satine loves Christian. Christian loves Satine. The Duke loves Satine. Jealousy. Revenge. Satine is dying from consumption. *~* Now the plot is a reasonable one, but the brilliance of this film – oh, did I forget to mention it was brilliant? Well, it is! – is in its ...

KarenUK 30.04.2002 · Read full review
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...'Sparkling Diamond' in the famous Moulin Rouge nightclub, her beauty enchants him. She however, cannot fall in love as, like Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, she is a prostitute and it is her job satisfy men and not get romantically involved. Nonetheless, she can't help but fall in love with him but only after acknowledging that he was a threat to her business. Despite the budding romance and the happiness that encapsulates the lovers, there is a tragic ...
...a relationship between a 19th Century writer and a courtesan, the emotions that they experience are vivid and are just as relevant in today’s society. It definitely fits into a different genre, which is why it is worth entering the sparkling and vivacious world of the Moulin Rouge. ...

kavita 16.09.2001 · Read full review
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“Moulin Rouge” is the latest from Baz Luhrmann, responsible for the high-camp “Strictly Ballroom”, which I really enjoyed and “William Shakespeare’s Romeo+Juliet”, which I have so far been unable to sit through. The box-office success of the latter landed Baz a budget of over $50m and seemingly endless freedom to execute his vision for “Moulin Rouge” and boy does he take full advantage. We get ...
...weaved around Baz’s vision of the famous Parisian nightclub on the cusp of the 20th Century, altho with nods to the more modern times, as most of the sings used and sung in the movie are from the past 30 years. Anyways the plot: Our penniless hero Christian, played by that fine figure of a Scotsman, Ewan McGregor, travels from his home in England (with that accent, I don’t think so laddie) to Paris to make his way in the world as a writer. ...

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