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Moulin Rouge [2001]
starring: Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh
directed by: Baz Luhrmann

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 9 to 12 days Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5039036014977
Format: PAL, Widescreen
Label: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 2
Release Date: October 13, 2003
Running Time: 122 minutes
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 2001
Sales Rank: 784

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Amazon.co.uk Review:
Watching Baz Luhrmann's award-winning Moulin Rouge is a lot like falling in love. It is total immersion cinema and while you're experiencing it ("watching" is too passive a word) you can't imagine that cinema could be for anything else. In the harsh, objective post-viewing daylight Lurhmann's gaudy spectacular might seem like a triumph of glossy style over any genuine substance, but as the film unfolds Lurhmann subjects his audience to a such a barrage of overtly stylised music, dance, colour, design and human passion that the senses are overwhelmed and critical faculties put on hold for the duration.

The story is paper-thin, but that's hardly the point. Nicole Kidman's courtesan Satine falls for poor poet Ewan McGregor while pledged to a psychotic English Duke. The show goes on, of course, and we know it will end in tragedy--because that's the sort of story this is, and the only thing that makes it bearable is the knowledge that it's all just brilliant artifice. The third of Luhrman's "Red Curtain" trilogy (after Strictly Ballroom and Romeo + Juliet), Moulin Rouge reinvents musical cinema, acknowledging its debt to past masters like Vincente Minnelli (Gigi) and Michael Powell (The Red Shoes), but taking in the best of rock video along the way. The incessant MTV-style editing might seem like a distraction, but in the end a film insane enough to include Jim Broadbent's cover of "Like a Virgin" defines its own genre rules.

On the DVD: this double-disc package sets new standards of presentation while also having an ideally appropriate light-heartedness. The extra features are as inventive in their use of the format as the film itself. Highlights include not one but two commentaries--one by Luhrmann, his designer and his cinematographer, the other with Lurhmann and his fellow scriptwriter Craig Pearce. We get two videos of "Lady Marmalade" and there are also uncut dance numbers, for example the fabulously dark Tango sequence in all its detail, which come with alternate camera angles so that you can edit your own version. There are whole segments on the glittery costumes, the three-dimensional model of Paris and the transformation of Kylie Minogue into the Green Fairy of absinthe. The film is presented in anamorphic widescreen (formatted for 16:9 TVs) with a visual aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and has lush, velvety Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 sound options. --Roz Kaveney

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Confused.com? You will be....
At first, my wife and I thought it just had a long arty f@rty starting, but after 25 minutes of loud shouty bizarre colour schemes we got a head ache and gave up.

Our advice, unless you are arty f@rty or are just trying to impress someone, don't bother watching this tripe.

I wish I could have given this a negative number 0 is too kind and giving it a 1 is far too generous.

Rating:

- The Moulin Rouge - Pure brilliance. Worth a watch.
I have to that i am not a big fan of musicals. I'm not too fond of high school musical so i didnt think this film would be my type...

But i was so wrong. It was absolutely amazing. The acting is top class by nicole and ewan and makes you feel what they are feeling. The jazzed up songs really work and just bring the whole film together. It can make you laugh and cry (literally).

My favourite part is probably the ending because it is such a beautiful representation of love and actually made me cry because of the twist in the ending. The end song "come what may" was absolutely breathtakingly sung by nicole and ewan and you feel the love they share. It gave me goosebumps but i really enjoyed it. I watch it again and again. ... Read More:

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- Comedy, Can Cans and True Love
The story is great; it has comedy, singing, dancing and, naturally, "That which I believe in above all things; love". All the actors are brilliant but Nicole Kidman is breathtaking in it. My favourite scene (possibly of all movies ever) is the finale scene of 'Spectacular Spectacular'. The song and dance scenes are really good fun, especially 'El Tango de Roxanne'. I have a lot of friends who love this movie, some who don't like it and a few who, even worse, won't even give it a chance. As you can tell, I'm a bit biased towards it, but I would say you should definitely try this film because there's a good chance that you'll be pleasantly surprised.

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- Brilliantly dazzling
The subject is banal : Paris, 1900, the famous Moulin Rouge music-hall and their never-ending shows that are titillating and mysterious, fascinating and 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, and the work of everyone else, by providing the patrons, the generous financiers with some carnal pleasure, illusionary or real according to the desires and 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 ... Read More:

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- Review
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 and 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 and what better way than to set up a new show called spectacular spectacular a show the two lovers come up with. The show is a mirrored image of their secret love life and 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 and tells the one man who will stop it Harold Zidler Jim ... Read More:

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