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About Moulin Rouge

Genre: Drama / Musical / Romance
Plot Outline: A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources.
MPAA: Rated PG-13 for sexual content.
Country: Australia / USA
Language: English
Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Certification: Australia:M / Netherlands:12 / UK:12 / USA:PG-13
Review:

''Moulin Rouge,'' seductive as it can be, is also an extravaganza of shrill camp. What's wrong with the picture has nothing to do with its audacious soundtrack; it's that the film seems to have been directed by a madman with a palm buzzer. Luhrmann, who made ''Strictly Ballroom'' and the revved into incoherence ''William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet,'' shoves pinched and overly made up faces at us, and he smashes all sense of space and time, so that the floor of the Moulin Rouge comes off as a bad trip version of Studio 54 crossed with the ''Star Wars'' cantina. The place is decorated with grotesque caricatures like Toulouse-Lautrec, played by John Leguizamo with a lisp that redefines ''tongue-tied,'' and the rouged impresario Zidler (Jim Broadbent), a nightmare of unctuousness who makes the ''Cabaret'' emcee look demure. Luhrmann, it's clear, wants to be accused of going too far, but the result is a musical that substitutes irony for pop passion, misanthropic disjointedness for lyrical flow.

by Owen Gleiberman

Nicole Kidmans Quotes about Moulin Rouge

``Baz is so bold and brave in his film-making. He does it with such a passion that he sweeps everyone along with him. I was ready to do anything for him,'' Kidman told a news conference.

``I'm very proud of this film. Obviously it would not be my choice under different circumstances to sit here and have people ask me questions about my personal life,'' added the actress, whose recent separation from her husband Tom Cruise has been widely covered in the tabloid press.