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Nicole suffered a broken rib while rehearsing a dance routine
for the movie Moulin Rouge. Production was halted while she
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Rouge
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.
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