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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543057659
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 14, 2003
Running Time: 128 minutes
Sales Rank: 1938
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: June 01, 2001
Editorial Review:
Description:
A spectacle beyond anything you've ever witnessed. An experience beyond everything you've ever imagined. Behind the red velvet curtain, the ultimate seduction of your senses is about to begin. Welcome to the Moulin Rouge! Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor sing, dance and scale the heights of passionate abandon in the year's most talked-about movie from visionary director Baz Luhrmann (William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet, Strictly Ballroom). Enter a tantalizing world that celebrates truth, beauty, freedom and above all things, love.
Amazon.com essential video:
A dazzling and yet frequently maddening bid to bring the movie musical kicking and screaming into the 21st century, Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge bears no relation to the many previous films set in the famous Parisian nightclub. This may appear to be Paris in the 1890s, with can-can dancers, bohemian denizens like Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo), and ribaldry at every turn, but it's really Luhrmann's pop-cultural wonderland. Everyone and everything is encouraged to shatter boundaries of time and texture, colliding and careening in a fast-cutting frenzy that thinks nothing of casting Elton John's 'Your Song' 80 years before its time. Nothing is original in this kaleidoscopic, absinthe-inspired love tragedy--the words, the music, it's all been heard before. But when filtered through Luhrmann's love for pop songs and timeless showmanship, you're reminded of the cinema's power to renew itself while paying homage to its past.
Luhrmann's overall success with his third 'red-curtain' extravaganza (following Strictly Ballroom and William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet) is wildly debatable: the scenario is simple to the point of silliness, and how can you appreciate choreography when it's been diced into hash by attention-deficit editing? Still, there's something genuine brewing between costars Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman (as, respectively, a poor writer and his unobtainable object of desire), and their vocal talents are impressive enough to match Luhrmann's orgy of extraordinary sets, costumes, and digital wizardry. The movie's novelty may wear thin, along with its shallow indulgence of a marketable soundtrack, but Luhrmann's inventiveness yields moments that border on ecstasy, when sound and vision point the way to a moribund genre's joyously welcomed revival. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Super-Amazing!
I'm a music fan. I love all tipes of music, but did not like show music so much. After watching Moulin Rouge, that perception changed. Moulin Rouge has the best soundtrack ever, and after watching it more than 5 times, I decided to get the two soundtracks to the movie. Any music fans out there, Moulin Rouge is one of the best musicals ever!!
Rating: - Moulin Rouge
This movie/musical was very well made. it wasn't annoying like most musicals are. Kidman and McGregor were perfect as the leads, who knew those two could sing!
Rating: - Awesome
Sure it isn't the deepest of movies, but is never boring and put together in astonishing fashion - can't imagine the maddening hours they must have put into this. For those reluctant because it's a musical, I found it to be never full of itself or "insisting on itself" (which is the reason I can't stand musicals), but rather I found Moulin Rouge to be a lighthearted tongue in cheek jab at the stereotype, telling a tragic tale in a comic light that actually, made the story much more credible. It's ... Read More
Rating: - Loves It!
I love this movie. I know a lot of people think it's weird, but they obviously just don't get it. Great story line.
Rating:  - And the star goes to.....
.....Nicole Kidman's hair extensions, which outperformed the
majority of this woefully inept cast.
Genius? High art? Spiritually infused with symbolism? Evidently
I needed to be drinking something stronger than I was when I
first viewed this film. Maybe there was a method behind the
film's references to absynthe after all.
Two things drive a good film: plot and character. When both
are developed properly and the right actors are chosen, movie ... Read More
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