Moulin Rouge
This musical sucks you in with its own brand of willful illogic and breathtaking visuals. Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a penniless poet falls madly in love with a nightclub's star performer, a chanteuse-cum-courtesan who has a heart of gold and is an incipient consumptive. The music is a combination of restructured modern pop tunes manhandled into clever new forms.
"...there, adrenals aflutter, I wanted to run, and you may, too. Don't. Despite the film's rabidly excessive stylistics (or..."
June 1, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
