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Moulin Rouge

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Moulin Rouge

Claude Nollier, Colette Marchand, José Ferrer, Kylie Minogue, Suzanne Flon

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 ...( read more  read more... )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

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  • kiriyamakazou
    August 13, 2008
    kiriyamakazou
    A wonderful companion piece to the more recent version and completely opposite in terms of tone. Ferrer is fantastic as Lautrec and the effects used to give the impression of him being short are faultless over 50 years on. The art direction and costume design were both worthy of ...( read more)their Oscar wins. The plot and pacing however are often uneven and repetitive as Lautrec meets new women who essentially treat him the same way. The first relationship became annoying with how every scene was simply arguing. For the most part though it is a haunting anti-romance with enough discussion points for any artist.
  • webalina
    January 6, 2008
    webalina
    Excellent biopic of Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, the turn of the century painter whose legs were deformed by a childhood accident, leaving him essentially a dwarf. Jose Ferrer does a great job in conveying the frustration and pain -- both physical and emotional -- of someone in his co...( read more)ndition. The scenes in the Moulin Rouge club is visually exciting, making you understand why he wanted to spend so much time there. Anyone with any knowledge of Lautrec and his art will recognize the inspirations of his paintings. But you don't have to know anything about him at all. It's interesting on its own. Keep an eye out -- not too difficult -- for Zsa Zsa Gabor in an early role as a performer at the club. This film is completely different and MUCH better than that musical tripe starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan MacGregor.
  • AgentLexi2132
    August 13, 2007
    AgentLexi2132
    This was interesting! poor short guy tho!
  • Collegekid
    January 16, 2007
    Collegekid
    good movie, better than the remake.
  • mjgildea
    November 5, 2006
    mjgildea
    Eye candy. Otherwise singing people freak me out.
  • libaypanganiban
    December 25, 2009
    libaypanganiban
    great musical...discovered cancan
  • chamela07
    December 17, 2009
    chamela07
    excellent. christian is such a sweetheart. "the greatest thing you've ever learn is just to love and be love in return."
  • jessikate24
    December 10, 2009
    jessikate24
    want to see it again
  • tilliecullen
    December 3, 2009
    tilliecullen
    This movie is amazing. So beautiful, funny and amazing! A great love-story...
  • LadyNorth7
    November 29, 2009
    LadyNorth7
    Baz Lurhmann is a flippin' genius with the his Red Carpet Trilogy cinematography
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