X
- 2001
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 7 m
- 2001
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 7 m
Summary Against the backdrop of 19th Century Paris and the famed Montmartre cabaret, this is the story of the doomed love affair between Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young poet, and Satine (Nicole Kidman), a courtesan and performer at the Moulin Rouge.
Directed By: Baz Luhrmann
Written By: Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann
- 2001
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 7 m
- 2001
- PG-13
- Twentieth Century Fox
- 2 h 7 m
Moulin Rouge!
66
7.8
Where to Watch
Summary Against the backdrop of 19th Century Paris and the famed Montmartre cabaret, this is the story of the doomed love affair between Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young poet, and Satine (Nicole Kidman), a courtesan and performer at the Moulin Rouge.
Directed By: Baz Luhrmann
Written By: Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
66
63% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
29% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
66
63% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
29% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
9% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
A landmark musical movie -- controversial, mercurial, even cheeky. It's the kind of film that wildly divides audiences and critics -- people tend to either love or hate it. I loved it.
The movie is all color and music, sound and motion, kinetic energy, broad strokes, operatic excess.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 248 User Ratings
7.8
77% Positive
191 Ratings
191 Ratings
16% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
7% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 248 User Ratings
7.8
77% Positive
191 Ratings
191 Ratings
16% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
7% Negative
18 Ratings
18 Ratings
it's such a colourful movie, everything from the cast, to the acting to the sets, to the costumes, to the music, its all so interesting and engaging. i've watched this movie an unhealthy amount of times.
Report
Loved it. Radical, modern, hilarious, charming and tragic. As my first Luhrmann experience, the first 10 minutes were tedious, but as soon as I entered the Moulin Rouge I instantly fell in love with the story and Luhrmann's style. A unique piece of art that goes directly to my all-time favs list. Can't wait to watch Elvis.
Report
A movie so cheeky, aggressive and bursting with vitality that it can't help being annoying and exhilarating at the same time.
A movie you can't readily get out of your head.
Diverting, energetic, and even reasonably satisfying, so long as you aren't looking for a real musical to take its place.
It wants to be like no other movie you've ever seen. It's more like every movie you've ever seen.
Ends up leaving you starved for a single moment of unhyped emotion. You can barely see the characters for Luhrmann screaming.
Set in 1899 and 1900, Baz Luhrmann's takes on a very strange but interesting decision to fill the musical not only without any original song but a modern song instead with an early 1900s style, from The Beatles, Elton John, Madonna, Queen, and even Nirvana and etc, the movie is also fills with a rich and glorious set, dance, color, and it is feels like a magical places, Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor give they're best performances both in terms of acting and singing, so do the rest of the cast, this is not only an ordinary musical, it's an epic musical and it's definitely among the greatest Musical i've ever watch, Moulin Rouge! is fantastic!.
Report
It's a good movie, but maybe if it weren't musical it would have been better.
This film is a mind-boggling trip to the bohemian world of Paris of other times, when the city of lights was the capital of vice and art, in a Europe more interesting than today. The Moulin Rouge is a cabaret, one of the most famous in the city, and it still exists, but this film shows its golden age, when the choristers were also prostitutes or "suggar-babies" of the elite. The script is based on a triangle of love, sensuality and interest formed by the chorus singer Satine, the powerful Duke and the romantic Christian, an English writer who falls in love with her.
This film has a beautiful tragic love story to tell, and that was what I liked most here. The best scenes in the film are the most romantic and the final part. Nicole Kidman looks wonderful, knows how to be sexy without being vulgar, and has very good chemistry with Ewan McGregor, who is another great actor in great shape here. The film was good for both their careers and they both earned all the credit they got. In the supporting cast, Richard Roxburgh and Jim Broadbent deserve an applause for their good work.
The problem with this film is, basically, everything else. Instead of focusing on history, creating a romantic drama with tragic contours, the dazzle of Paris was stronger and decided on a Broadway-style musical. This can be pleasant, in other films, when it is done properly. "Les Misérables" or "Sweeny Todd" are good examples of films of this style that worked wonderfully. Here, the Broadway style and the comic touches came totally out of the question and only served to distract us. Of course, in the middle of the error there are good things. For example, the songs were excellent (Your Song is particularly striking) and so was the music. The entire choreography and dance department of the film deserved to be congratulated for the excellent work, at the level of the best that is done on Broadway. I just think that the film, due to the good love story it brings, did not ask for this cheerful style, especially if we take into account the tragic touch it has. I didn't like John Leguizamo either. He looked like a clown all the time.
The film was well directed by Baz Luhrmann, but the film may not be as good as other films of his career, like "Gatsby", which was one of the best films he directed, in my opinion. Here, I think he was too bold and followed a path that he shouldn't have followed. But despite that, the film has quality and is worth the time we spent watching it.
Report
Luhrmann usually gives us stylistic films with substance, but he falls extremely short here. The style is used to disguise the fact that the plot makes little sense and that they are ruining generally highly regarded songs (e.g. The Show Must Go On). The only moment in the film I could enjoy for what it was was the Roxanne scene. Beautiful imagery and symbolism and provided characterisation to a character previously used as simply comic relief (though the outrageous nature of the film hardly needs a comic relief character). If the whole film and been like that, I would have certainly enjoyed it much more.
Report
Moulin Rouge is so contrived, so lame, so up-its-own-a**, and so insultingly unoriginal, it really does make Titanic look like Casablanca. The characters are written horribly, the story is absolute crap, and the movie seems to think it's profound, and no, we are not at least able to enjoy the spectacle, because the movie is shot in such a way that the sets and costumes escape our vision as fleeting as possible. Let's imagine an incredibly shallow movie as a hollow eggshell covered in glitter. Now let's imagine self-importance and pretentiousness as a giant hand around the eggshell, pushing harder the more it believes the movie is spectacular. Do the math.
Report
Production Company
Twentieth Century Fox,
Bazmark Films
Release Date May 18, 2001
Duration 2 h 7 m
Rating PG-13
Tagline No Laws. No Limits. One Rule. Never Fall In Love.
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 2 Wins & 8 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Online Film & Television Association
• 4 Wins & 22 Nominations
