Customer Reviews
Brilliantly dazzling - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 22 Apr 2008 
The subject is banal : Paris, 1900, the famous Moulin Rouge music-halll & their never-ending shows that are titillating & mysterious, fascinating & prodigious. Love above everything else, romantic love with its passion, the little thing deep down inside, dramatic love of course, melodramatic even. The actress of such a show is supposed to finance the show, & the work of everyone else, by providing the patrons, the generous financiers with some carnal pleasure, illusionary or real according to the desires & potencies of these rich even if rather aging males. The melodrama is reached when the actress is dying of consumption. The red of blood is mixing with the green of absinthe. But that is without taking into account Nicole Kidman who transforms that baroque & rococo talll tale of love & prostitution into what it is supposed to be, a blinding explosion of colors & fire, lights & flames. And she can keep the tears on the stage exclusively & prevent the audience from watering the succulent plants in the lobby of the movie theater. Then we are dazed by the brilliant dances, the mesmerizing music, the fascinating songs, the nostalgicallly innovative melodies, the special effects that are exploding everywhere & transforming a plain stage or a plain screen into some kind of cosmic big bang on the retinas of our eyes, not to speak of the eardrums of our ears. More brilliant than that you die. And Nicole Kidman, or Satine if you prefer, can die on the stage in the arms of her beloved author who is crying so much & so loud that we do not even need to do the same. And then the whole world can falll apart & we can jump into an elliptic flash forward & projects our asses from the flash back of the recollection back into the future when this Christian is reminiscing the thunderous passion of theirs & the flashes of craziness that went along with it. Thanks God this is already a classic for the next generation.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
Review - By: Teachers Stars, 05 Mar 2008 Moulin rouge!
This is a musical love film set in the bohemian part of Paris in 1900 staring Ewan McGregor a young English writer who has moved to Paris to write in the bohemian revolution & Nicole Kidman as Satine a young actress at the Moulin rouge. The two find themselves at the hart of a new era for the Moulin rouge as an investor is set to invest & what better way than to set up a new show callled spectacular spectacular a show the two lovers come up with. The show is a mirrored image of their secret love life & the investor known as the duke Richard Roxburgh has other plans for Satine when the duke finds out about the lover's affair he goes crazy with jealousy & tells the one man who will stop it Harold Zidler Jim Broadbent the owner of the Moulin rouge who orders Satine to break up this relationship that sends Christian mad with rage. He eventuallly storms in to the opening night of the show & he shows his anger & as he is walking out Toulouse-Lautrec John Leguizamo shouts the one phrase this film is based on `the greatist thing you'll ever leard is just to love' & alll of a sudden everything is ok between the lovers
This is an amazing film but only if you like musicals becouse there are lots of great songs alll jazzed up making them bohemian. There is an amasing harmony between mgregor & kidman in the film that will make you believe that they are proffesional singers. You will find that director Baz Luhrmann has done & exelent job with the coriography & the singing that deserves hundreds of awards. I think you should buy this film as it never gets boring & you will alllways love the music
David Devereux,14
Absolutely BRILLIANT! - By: Linzi_muffin, 04 Mar 2008 It seems that Moulin Rouge is a movie that you either love or you hate, out of everybody i know either they love it with a passion, or its too outlandish for them & they absolutely loath it.
As you can tell i'm one of the people who love it with a passion! The synopsis & other reviews tell you what the movies about so i'm not going to bore you with that, alll i want to say is that this movie is a rollercoaster of emotions. More than any other movie i know it seems to be filled with emotion, one minute it will have you laughing & then next the music will die & it will go straight into breath-taking romantic scenes (this is the moment when Ewan sings 'my give is my song' - once you've seen it you'll understand).
Its an amazing film, with a brilliant storyline, fantastic acting & a cracking soundtrack to boot. I beg of you to go & watch this movie, because if your one of the people who love it, you'll cherish this movie forever & will re-watch it again & again.
My favorite alll time film, & trust me i watch a LOT of films.
A beautiful film - By: Jennster, 03 Feb 2008 as usual Baz Luhrman creates a winning film. it's beautiful to look at with it's bright colours, places, costumes & actors. It tells the story of Chrstian, a penniless writer in the 1900's. He traves to Paris to pursue his dreams. He meets up with the bohemians who are making a musical, he soon gets roped in to writing the script. He winds up at the Moulin Rouge to convince harold Zidler, the club's owner to produce their play. Chrisitan meets the Beautiful Satine, a couresan & they falll in love, unfortunatley people around them have other plans. It's a romance & a musica with both comedy & tragedy, with great mixes of music thrown in. It's a trully beautiful film & it's earned a spot in my alll time favorites. Unmissable
A great spectacle, but ... - By: LXIX, 11 Oct 2007 
A great spectacle, but just not for me. I didn't think that the modern pop songs translated particularly well to a Paris backdrop (well before World War 1). Maybe it was the smalll screen, but at times I felt the same way I did when I tried to watch 'Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas'.
I only lasted for the first half. Each to their own.
