Moulin Rouge! [Blu-ray]
by Baz Luhrmann
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Actor: Ewan McGregor, Nicole KidmanDirector: Baz Luhrmann
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); French (Dubbed); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: AC-3, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Dubbed, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2010-10-19
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Blu-ray Reviews of Moulin Rouge! [Blu-ray]
Blu-ray Review: An imperfect, dazzling feast
Summary: 4 Stars
Love him or hate him, you can't deny Aussie director Baz Luhrmann's vaulting ambition which came to eye-popping, quick-cutting, over-the-top fruition in 2001's Best Picture nominee, MOULIN ROUGE! With the goal of re-inventing the movie musical, as he did Shakespeare in his earlier kinetic interpretation of ROMEO + JULIET, Luhrmann co-wrote (with Craig Pearce) this ultimately tragic romance sprinkled with silly comedy, can-can girls and a soundtrack made up of pop songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein to Dolly Parton to Nirvana and set in the Bohemian world of the infamous 1899 Paris nightclub that in the director's hands makes Studio 54 look like Romper Room.
Ewan McGregor plays Christian, a young (he was probably about 15 years too old for the part), inexperienced British writer who comes to Paris and the wild, sexy, absinthe-tinged world of the Moulin Rouge in search of love and life experience. As the story is told in flashback, we know from the start he's going to find it, and it's not going to end well.
The star of the Moulin Rouge stage is Nicole Kidman's beautiful courtesan, Satine. When Christian is enlisted by none other than Toulouse-Letrec (John Leguizamo) and his merry prankster sidekicks to write a musical stage spectacular called SPECTACULAR, SPECTATCULAR, Zidler, the owner of the Moulin Rouge (a rollicking Jim Broadbent), mistakes the penniless writer for a rich financier, and Christian finds himself in Satine's opulent boudoir. Among farcically comic misunderstandings, Christian and Satine fall in love while crooning Elton John and Bernie Taupin's "Your Song" in the most starry-eyed of the film's dazzlingly romanticized musical number.
But everything in MOULIN ROUGE! is dazzling. With cinematic influences from Jean Renoir's FRENCH CAN-CAN to Max Ophuls' LOLA MONTES to Bob Fosse's CABARET to any number of Bollywood extravaganzas, Baz Luhrmann pumps up the visual and aural volume to eleven and pretty much pulls it off. Backed by production designer and co-costume designer Catherine Martin, who walked off with the film's two Oscars, and Don McAlpine's stunning Oscar-nominated cinematography, Baz Luhrmann's colorful vision practically pops off the screen.
Kidman (nominated for Best Actress) and McGregor make an appealing couple, and their heartfelt handling of the film's musical numbers is surprisingly effective if not always technically perfect. The staging and choreography is fresh and exciting (though a bit ADD over-edited), and by the time Satine's tuberculosis brings the film to its inevitable tragic-opera denouement, you know that this filmmaker has taken you on a one-of-a-kind cinematic ride.
Description of Moulin Rouge! [Blu-ray]
Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 10/19/2010 Run time: 120 minutes Rating: Pg13A 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
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