... exhibited his penchant for lurid and bold filmmaking, but with Moulin Rouge he has taken his flights of fantasy to new heights. To have characters set within the "baudy" and bohemian turn of the century Paris, suddenly bursting into refrains of the modern song, Elton John's Your Song is a leap few other filmmakers would attempt, let alone complete, but it's to ... , for example props - such as hand guns of present time were used. The main character, Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young English writer who has moved to Paris to experience the exciting bohemian life and to write about love, t...

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Moulin Rouge A famous courtesan, a narcoleptic Argentinean, a bohemian midget, and a young man in search of love welcome to your grandmother's musical, steeped in absinthe and cut to satisfy the MTV generation. Baz Luhrman's third and final entry to ... us believe in love again. The movie takes us to the Mont Martre section of Paris, where the young writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) has gone to find love and the bohemian way of life at the Moulin Rouge, the infamous Parisian nightclub of can-can fame. Before you can say, big red windmill, he has met up with Toulouse-Lautrec, who ... ...

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... Satine in return for money. As luck, fate, and tradition would have it, Satine and Christian fall in love, but tragedy must win and after a brief triumph in which the bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom, and above all things love are upheld and used to defeat the Duke, Satine dies and Christian is left alone to tell the story. Yes ... ...

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... conceals no genuine plot content. In 1899, a young poet named Christian leaves his family's home and heads off to the Montmartre district of Paris where he falls into the debauched bohemian world of painter Toulouse-Lautrec. When he is enlisted to write a routine for the Moulin Rouge nightclub, he soon falls for the club's star, a courtesan named Satine. Instead of developing ... ...

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