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Summary: The World Need Color!
Review: At the start of the 21'st century what the USA needed more then
anything was bright,colorfol pitures.Good plots and filmaking
notwishstanding "Moulin' Rouge" is BY FAR Baz Lurhmann's most
intruiging and visually stunning film.DO NOT watch it after drinking too much coffee or it you have any heart problems-this
is filmed at a dizzying pace;all up in absinthe hallucinations and early 20'th century Paris nightlife.It's highly simplistic
plot of true love over profit is interesting on it's own but this
movies highly visual razzle-dazzle and pop song parody brings it
past it's average entertainment value.Kidman and McGregor are
very good but my favorite character is that of the freakish,
slightly mad Harold Zidler-one of a few characters in the film
(including one played by the film's own director) that matches the unremitting madness of the entire film!Upon first seeing it you may not realize what you've seen but upon each subsequent
viewing AND if you can get past that ubiquitous remake of
"Lady Marmalade" then "Moulin Rouge" is a movie treasure!
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Summary: A Different Experiece
Review: At first a little feisty and hard to follow, it blossoms into the most beautiful duets and songs inspired by music and love songs originally written by modern artists. "All You Need is Love," "Love is like oxygen," "In the Name of Love" and "This is Your Song;" Nicole and Ewan turn that musical artistry into a feast for the eyes, ears and even the soul. Some lines in the movie are so precise and poingnant that they can only be sung to convey the full meaning the movie seeks to project: That above all else this is a story about love. If you are a romantic, the movie will touch you. You will not see this movie only once.
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Summary: It's Amazing!
Review: I didn't think I was going to like a musical such as this but when I watched it, I fell in LOVE! The costumes are precise and absolutely gorgeous, and Nicole and Ewan sang wonderfully enough so that I have both soundtracks. This movie set in this time frame holds true to a Baz Lurhman film, and the DVD has even more to make you love it. I recommend this to ANYONE even if you think you may not like it..you never know you may love it like I do.
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Summary: To love and love not...
Review: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and to be loved in return.The movie 'Moulin Rouge' is a tour de force of modern and romantic/historical synthesis. The events take place at the turn of the century, a mythical tale of a staid and conservative English boy from London travelling to wild and exotic Paris, in the Montmarte district, to be an artist, and to fall in love. Aptly named Christian (played by Ewan McGregor, and of course, he will fall from grace and stray from the path), the hero of course becomes involved with the artistic crowd, including Toulouse-Lautrec (played brilliantly by artificially diminutive John Leguizamo). From the beginning, with music from 'The Sound of Music', later joined by the most inventive renderings of hits from Madonna and Elton John (among many, many others), one gets the feeling that real fun was had in the creation of this piece; who would think 'The Hills are Alive' could serve as a quintessential bohemian revolutionary piece? Our hero constantly waxes plagiaristically-poetic on the brilliance of love, and of course, soon finds love, in a tragic and unavailable beauty, the star of the Moulin Rouge (played by Nicole Kidman). Satine is instead being set up to 'entertain' a Duke, a wealthy financier the nightclub owner Zidler hopes will save his flagging fortunes. Naturally a mix-up occurs, the young poet being mistaken for the wealthy Duke, and fate is sealed as they fall in love. Satine does a number worthy of Madonna and Marilyn Monroe with a very material-girl 'Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend'; eventually all falls apart as the identities are resolved, the Duke invests, the hero pens a 'legitimate' musical, but ultimately, all goes tragically awry when love gives way to practical reality and true human conditions. The costumes and settings are over the top in every way - the gray existence is far more gray, the colours far more colourful, and all the music has snap and pop befitting the best of pop music and burlesque. The choreography is simply amazing, complementing the storyline seamlessly. The direction is quick and energetic, and editing quite amazing, and the composition/remixing of music together makes this Oscar-winner a real pleasure. The DVD has various extras, behind the scenes interviews with all the major production personnel, from the director and costumer and choreographer to the writers and actors. There is even a 'Making of...' special produced by HBO that gives much background material. This is a toe-tapping, sing-along, fast-paced film, a real Spectacular, Spectacular! if ever there were one. And through it all, there is one strand, one key, one thing to learn. The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and to be loved in return.
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Summary: magical
Review: Moulin Rouge was not a film that appealed to me. I was dragged by my son to the cinema to watch it. Thank heavens I was. This has to be one of the best films of recent times.
It's quirky in it's style and cinematography but so watchable nonetheless. The music is catchy and very cleverly arranged. Who could fail to laugh aloud at Zidler and the Duke performing their version of Madonna's 'Like a Virgin' or be moved by Christian and Satine singing 'Come What May'.
Ewan Mcgregor and Nicole Kidman have a screen chemistry between them and, surprisingly, they have good voices too. Not something either of them were known for before.
Moulin Rouge is a film that can be watched time and time again without becoming bored. Watch it. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: A few Good Moments
Review: Ok, I admit I loved the ending. It gave me what I wanted in terms of romance. Again, Hollywood gave me a film that was just a remake of a very overdone plot. Basically, it failed to pull me into the pathos of the film. I am supposed to feel sorry for this girl who is willing to throw herself into bed for this man to bankroll her show. Of course there were a few original duets that were stunning--the highlight being the clear tenor voice of the hero. But the villian was way too overdone. I didn't believe him at all. Way two dimensional. Its too bad the writers didn't try to work on some original dialogue instead of making everything some allusion. But if you can live with a lot of silly remakes of songs like Roxanne and some great sets, with a few beautiful moments thrown in, it will work for you. Its parts were basically greater than the whole which is too bad. Nicole is stunning in it, but her acting didn't give the character any more realness than the script did. I hate to say it, but its a musical non-musicians love.
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Summary: Odd Concept, Great Production
Review: Many people will not even notice the feature on this DVD that, for me, makes it the excellent movie it is. Just about every theatrical quality of this movie has been reviewed to death, so I'm going to try and avoid that and mention a feature that will make the movie for a small but, to me at least, important group. If you insert this DVD and navigate to the languages menu you'll find a language entitled something like, "audio description for the visually impaired." If you select this feature and play the DVD you'll notice short spoken descriptions of action, setting, costuming, etc inserted so as not to interfere with the dialog of the movie. If you don't happen to be visually impaired yourself, or if you don't happen to be watching with someone who is, simply don't select this language and your viewing experience will proceed as if this option didn't even exist. With DVD being a media that permits storage of truly astounding quantities of data, there is little, good, reason for movie producers not to include such an audio description on their DVD releases. Nevertheless, we see the vast majority of DVD releases coming out without this small but exceedingly appreciated accomodation. Any movie studio that does include this feature on their DVD releases has my vote, especially if the movie provides me good entertainment alongside the rest of my family. This was a good film, an excellent production and a terrific example of how a movie studio can make a minor accomodation that can provide real benefit!
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Summary: I Really Loved It
Review: People seem so divided about this DVD. Some love it, some hate it, but very few seem to be "in the middle." Put me on the side that loves it. I think the sets were wonderful, the script terrific, the story "just right" and the acting jobs "on the money." "Moulin Rouge" walks a very fine balance between tragedy and comedy and it never makes a misstep...something that would be very easy to do. I have to ascribe this wonderful tightrope dance to both the excellent screenplay and the excellent acting of Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman. I can't imagine anyone else in the parts. I think "Moulin Rouge" will appeal more to romantics and lovers of fantasy than it will to others. You certainly have to be able to accept the premise that "true love never really dies" in order to appreciate this movie. I do.
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Summary: Real Love becomes the plot of the play
Review: The Bohemian Paris of the beginning of the 20th century has always fascinated people. This film is an attempt to capture this Paris of Toulouse Lautrec and his friends, of Montmartre and the Moulin Rouge that is becoming the trendiest theater of the country and probably of Europe. So this musical is absolutely full of music and singing and dancing and all other type of stage art to transform everyday life into a constant whirlwind of immediate action that is supposed to swallow up feelings, sentiments, passions, and all other derangements of the mercantile mind of these artists who must only try to trap the rich with their women who become nothing but whores, prostitutes and money grabbers. This film could have been sordid and bleak. But it is luminous and brilliant because the show on the stage is entirely mixed up with the reality of a love affair between a poet and one of these courtesans that embellish the stage with desire, passion and life for the impulses of the rich male audience. Hence the poor Satine is at first divided between a rich Duke she has to seduce to get money for the theater and a young poet who is so inspired that he makes her vibrate with love, a sentiment she did not know so far. From divided she moves to torn apart and from torn apart she moves to subjugated and mesmerized. Love has become the new absinth of this relation, an alcohol that leads her beyond all possible reason. Yet she will betray it to make the show possible, and yet her love will re-enter the stage through a small window under the stage after having been expelled through the main entrance door. And the show becomes real life, the plot becomes real passion, and what's more tuberculosis catches up on Satine and makes her die in the closing scene of the play transforming a simple dramatic act into a real life event, without the audience realizing the drama. This film is thus breath-taking by its rhythm and by the merging together of reality and illusion. It becomes a dream made true by some fairy in the wings. Yet it avoids pure sentimentalism and reaches the beauty of the mind and the heart. It is greater than God's intervention in human affairs. It is no « deus ex machina » but it is the real power of real life invested in the artificial brilliance and elegance of a theatrical show. Romantic maybe, sentimentalese never. A masterpiece of Bohemian art one century after the events. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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Summary: The best and sadest film in the world!!!
Review: This film is the best! It shows how upset people get when someone they love dies. Nicole Kidman and Ewan Mcgreggor where the perfect people to play the main parts as they are both brilliant actors and actresses! If you haven't seen this film, you've missed out on something!!!
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