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Film Review
Moulin Rouge
2001
20th Century Fox
Baz Luhrmann
"Moulin Rouge" is a vivacious bombardment of song, passion, dance and all things above else. ... Encouraged to join them in their bohemian revolution, he is taken to an underground club, Moulin Rouge. He then has the worst and best night of his life, meeting his one true love, only to find she is a courtesan and in the hands of a Duke who is infatuated with her, with the deeds to the Moulin Rouge. ...
The genres revolving "Moulin Rouge" are plenty to discuss. ... All matching the seedy and eroticism the Moulin Rouge held when it was in its peak, when ". ... The heaving bosoms, and frilly wide skirts overlapping petticoats with stockings and frilly pantaloons belonging to the dancers are consistent throughout the film, their own colours matching the lively cleverly mismatched colours of the Moulin Rouge. ...
Narrative in "Moulin Rouge" is amazing. ... When there is a dance at the Moulin Rouge for example, there are multiple pan movements, swish pan movements, jib crane shots and dolly track shots all rolled into one mis – matched crosscutting sequence connotating the chaos and unpredictability of the Moulin Rouge. ... There are a feast of colours and the imagery is exotic and seductive and shows the realism of what the Moulin Rouge really was. ... And again, their story revolves around the involuntary improvised play to be performed at the Moulin Rouge, which is in actual fact the situation Christian and Satine find themselves in. ... Naturally he is corrupted by the dark mischievous ways of the underworld from Moulin Rouge. ...
"Moulin Rouge" does circulate around genres expected in musicals and yet shies away from others, and sometimes exceeds expectation by portraying the reality of the situation a little more bluntly than other musicals.
Approximate Word count = 1445
Approximate Pages = 5.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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