Fresh
Moulin Rouge is a tour de force of artifice, a dazzling pastiche of musical and visual elements at the service of a blatantly artificial story.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Moulin Rouge!
No laws. No limits. One rule. Never fall in love.
2001 · 2h 8m · PG-13
Drama, Music, Romance
Directed by
Baz Luhrmann
Overview
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
Director and cast
- Baz Luhrmann Director
- Ewan McGregor as Christian
- Nicole Kidman as Satine
- John Leguizamo as Toulouse-Lautrec
- Jim Broadbent as The Unconscious Argentinean
- Richard Roxburgh as The Duke
- Garry McDonald as The Doctor
- Jacek Koman as The Unconscious Argentinean
- Matthew Whittet as Satie
- Kerry Walker as Marie
- Caroline O'Connor Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Mr. Luhrmann and his colleagues have worked like whirling dervishes to make the plot look like it's moving.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
If it lacks the emotional punch of Luhrmann's earlier films, and drags towards the end, it is still great fun.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Rotten
[Luhrmann] gives you way too much of what you didn't really want in the first place: soulless high jinks.
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
The net result of all this cinematic whirling, of the "wrong" music and of the parodic plot, is that nothing at all in the film moves us.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
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