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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792860761
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 0792860764
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Running Time: 119 minutes
Sales Rank: 17417
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1952
Editorial Review:
Description:
Nominated* for seven Academy Awards(r) (including Best Picture) and winner of two, this visually stunning biography of master artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec is a 'painting come to life' (Time)! 'Flawlessly directed' (The Hollywood Reporter) by John Huston (The African Queen), from a script by Anthony Veiller and Huston, Moulin Rouge is simply 'irresistible' (Newsweek)! As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer) believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street who then breaks his heart. Luckily, newfound artistic success, copious amounts of drink and friendship with a new woman keep him alive. Will he be able to mend his broken heart in time to recognize the true love now staring him inthe face?
Amazon.com:
It was one of the top 10 grossing films of 1952 and garnered seven Oscar nominations, but Moulin Rouge is neglected today. Not to be confused with the Baz Luhrmann-Nicole Kidman extravaganza, this is a color-soaked tale of Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer), based on a romanticized novel about the artist's life. Director John Huston explores the discrepancy between the creation of exquisite art and the messy business of living--especially messy for the growth-stunted, alcoholic painter, whose affairs revolve around prostitutes. The soap-opera aspects of the storyline limit the picture (as does the distracting fact of Ferrer walking on his knees), but it has some gorgeous things in it. The experiments in color photography (which horrified the Technicolor people) are spectacularly successful, and the movie won Oscars for set decoration and costumes. George Auric's haunting melody became a standard, so lovely even the dubbed performance of Zsa Zsa Gabor couldn't hurt it. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - The Other "Moulin Rouge"
Shadow Watcher
Nobody Drowns in Mineral Lake
Mention MOULIN ROUGE and most folks will think of Nicole Kidman and the ground-breaking 2001 musical in which she sang and danced to perfection.
However, back in 1952, there was another (non-musical) MOULIN ROUGE, and most people who remember this John Huston-directed classic consider it to be one of the greatest films of that decade.
It also produced a title song that has become a standard.
Huston's ... Read More
Rating: - Art; Life; the Gutter & the Chateau
Among the most interesting aspects of this powerful story were the strong, if not subtle, contrasts. To get the niggles out of the way: many features jarred, to an extent: the dubbed singing, the easily detectable fake chin and nose, the completely unconvincing abbreviated legs. However, they didn't actually seem to matter. The story was rather simplistic, but that didn't seem to matter either. Somehow there was a truth to it, which completely escaped the Luhrmann production. Not that that was about Toulouse ... Read More
Rating: - Tulouse LaTrec
It's a 50's movie and I get a kick out of the special effects and some of the make up jobs. However, Jose Frerre did the entire movie on his knees to appear small in stature the same as Tulouse so I give him kudos for suffering through all that. Miss Gabor even looked good way back then!
Rating: - Vivid Portrait of An Artist
Even in an age when the studios placed restrictions on what would appear on screen director John Huston was a highly individual and uncomprosing auteur. Despite the film's ostensible setting in the gaiety of Paris' Moulin Rouge the film is front-and-center a portrait of a brooding cognac besotted artist Henri de Latrouse-Lautrec(Jose Ferrer). Born of French nobility, Latrouse-Lautrec was left crippled and deformed at an early age by a freak household accident. Embittered, Latrouse-Lautrec felt incapable or ... Read More
Rating:  - GHOSTS APPEAR AND FADE AWAY
One of the best movies of its time is little more now than a "period piece". Indeed, the movie's terrific theme song has stood the test of time much better than the movie. Paris in 1890 is not exactly a "big draw" to today's movie goers.Ferrer, on the other hand, does a masterful job in playing Toulouse-Lautrec, brilliantly portraying the handicapped artist whose sketchings and posters hang today in the Louvre. But, the overall production seems prolonged and repetitious, and the fast paced banter of the ... Read More
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