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I am a bit late in writing a review for this movie (like 18 years) but I don't really normally write reviews. But I'm watching it this evening and I just feel like I have to say that I have loved this film ever since I first saw it back in 2002, I wore out a DVD copy because I watched it that much.Everything about it is sheer perfection, the sets, the lighting, the music, the costumes, the actors, the script, the coloring, the camera work...literally everything is just perfect to me. I cannot ever describe how much I love this movie but Come What May (had to slip in a song title somewhere) it will remain in my movie library for the rest of my life!!

If you look at the story in an emotionless way then it is 'La Dame aux Camélias' meets contemporary music in an abundantly colourful background.Only I can't look at it emotionlessly. It is just too spectacularly wonderful!For me, this film lets euphoria take possession of me! It flows all through me and I feel sadness and bliss at the same time as it has me both smiling and crying ecstatically. It makes me yearn for "La grande passion" and, at the same time, feel that passion through Satine and Christian.This is perfection!

Chanteuse in late 1890s Paris mistakes a Bohemian songwriter for a wealthy Duke; they fall in love anyway. Strictly as a piece of eye-candy, "Moulin Rouge!" is a stunning cinematic achievement; alas, it is also full of inappropriate music and characters so manic they lose any appeal the actors might have brought to the slim material. It is visually inventive but absolutely devoid of passion, and so mechanically cranked-up to grab you by the eyeballs that it fails to come together on an emotional level. Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor--everyone in the cast, in fact--is game and energetic to a fault, but after 90 minutes I'd had enough. The film's major conceit (pop and rock songs injected into a period setting) never quite gels, and as for the characters...who cares? *1/2 from ****