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Moulin Rouge

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Moulin Rouge

2001

Baz Luhrmann

Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, David Wenham ...

6.8

129,360

Musical. Drama. Romance Christian, a young Bohemian poet living in 1899 Paris, defies his father by joining the colorfully diverse clique inhabiting the dark, fantastical underworld of Paris' now legendary Moulin Rouge. In this seedy but glamorous haven of sex, drugs and newly-discovered electricity, the poet-innocent finds himself plunged into a passionate but ultimately tragic love affair with Satine, the club's highest paid star and the city's most famous ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"'Moulin Rouge' is a tour de force of artifice, a dazzling pastiche of musical and visual elements at the service of a blatantly artificial story."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is more like the Moulin Rouge of my adolescent fantasies than the real Moulin Rouge ever could be. (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"A rare picture that gets you intoxicated on the possibilities of movies."	POS
United States	Mike Clark USA Today	"Feels as if a dump truck has buried moviegoers in confetti and glitter for two hours. (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Elvis Mitchell The New York Times	"The movie has so much heart that the poor overworked organ explodes in every scene."	NEU
United States	Kirk Honeycutt The Hollywood Reporter	"Some may dig Luhrmann's deconstructionist, irreverent style, but the movie is too gimmicky and pleased with its irreverence to connect emotionally with audiences."	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"I left 'Moulin Rouge' feeling something, all right: I felt mauled."	NEG

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