MOULIN ROUGE

 "MOULIN ROUGE!" --- (2001) --- 

MY THOUGHTS: I absolutely love this movie and everything about it! The use of the songs, and the songs used, are genius. The dance numbers are fantastic, most especially the one where they dance to "Roxanne", and the editing (back and forth) between what is going on with the dancers and what is going on with Satine and the Duke. It is intense, emotional and does a great deal to propel the story forward in a way mere spoken word ever could. The lead actors do an amazing job, and the supporting cast does as well. I could watch it over and over again and have. 
SYNOPSIS: "A young Englishman in the Paris of 1899, becomes infatuated with Satine, a singer at the Moulin Rouge. However, she has been promised by the manager to a Duke in return for funding his next production. As the young lovers meet in secret, Satine's day to consummate her relationship with the duke draws closer but she hides a fatal secret from both Christian and the Duke."

STARRING: Nicole Kidman, Natalie Mendoza, Ewan McGregor, Richard Roxburgh, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Jonathan Hardy, Tara Morice and Davud Wenham.

SCREENPLAY: Baz Luhrmann and Craig Pearce.

DIRECTOR: Baz Luhrmann

AWARDS & OTHER HONORS:

It was nominated for eight ( 8 ) Academy Awards and won two (2) for:

"Best Art Direction"

"Best Costume Design"

It was nominated for forty-seven (47) additional awards, by various entities, and won twenty-two (22) of them.