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Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records his frustration over his physical handicap (the growth in his legs was stunted by a childhood accident), his efforts to "lose" himself in Paris' bawdy Montmartre district, and his career as a painter, which brought him money only when he turned out advertising posters--but what posters! Toulouse-Lautrec's drinking and debauchery lead to his early death, which in the hands of director John Huston is staged (brilliantly) in the manner of a musical comedy finale. This is the film in which Zsa Zsa Gabor actually acts, in the role of demimonde entertainer Jane Avril. As a bonus, the film's musical score (by Georges Auric) managed to hit the Top Ten charts in the U.S. When this immensely successful film was released to television in the late '50s, Moulin Rouge proved to be one of the strongest-ever incentives to purchase a color TV set. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Moulin Rouge is like Busby Berkeley on speed. It's too frantic. It's too claustrophobic. It's too smug and self-satisfied. Yet even while Moulin Rouge frequently descends into burdensome heaps of camera shots and machine-gun-paced editing, the movie remains a technical marvel. When the 2002 Academy Award nominations are announced, you should fully expect to see Moulin Rouge receive nods for art direction and cinematography.
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Star Wars, Trainspotting and Moulin Rouge star Ewan McGregor went to Camden Town Hall, to make a special plea for the independent Everyman cinema in Hampstead. As in all the best movies the good guys won and Mr McGregor - with writer and director Anthony Mingella - helped save the cinema.
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Moulin Rouge will no doubt enrage cineastes who constantly mourn the death of film. True, this post-MTV musical extravaganza offers up a thin plot, a saccharine soundtrack, weak characterizations, amphetamine-amped editing, and then dares to call itself a movie.
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Moulin Rouge is set in a French bordello at the turn of the century. A play within a play, a penniless writer writes a play about a woman that must choose between a poor sitar player and a rich Marahajah. Mirroring the play, the writer is in love with Satine, the star actress. A rich duke finances the production on condition he can have sole access to Satine's services. Throughout the movie, Sitane wavers between love and security. As she swings back and forth, the characters communicate their feelings through song. With the exception of the lover's secret "come what may", the songs are not original.
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``Moulin Rouge'' ruled in the U.K., ringing up $2.7 million in its second stanza (off 15%), bringing the market total to $8.3 million. Fox's tuner whistled up an OK $252,000 in Hong Kong, behind fellow rookie ``Scary Movie 2'' and local picture ``Horror Hotline: Big Head Monster.'' ``Moulin's'' foreign total hit $34.9 million.
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