... who enjoy only sedate films, Moulin Rouge is reduced to an overly staged music video. If eliciting a deeper meaning behind the songs in effort to pilot a powerful message marks a necessary syntactic characteristic of the musical genre, Moulin Rouge fails. Nothing more than simple dialog written around dated love songs, the flashy package conceals no genuine plot content. In ... see the nightclub not as a shabby tourist trap but as a stage for their dreams. Even its villain is a love-struck duke who gnashes his way into the fantasy, content to play a starring role however venal. The fil...

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