Moulin Rouge

2001

Director: Baz Luhrmann

Distributor: Fox Movies

Key Elements: Music – Visuals – Message

My Review:

In my opinion, this is Baz Luhrmann’s best.

The songs really make the movie. I love the creativity of blending popular songs around a story. And if you read the lyrics for the one original song, “Come What May,” you’ll find that the song doubles and an excellent worship song.

As if the music weren’t enough, the movie is also visually astonishing. It is a beautiful carnival ride of form and color.

As an artist, I also like all the references to the Bohemian revolution.

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Quotes:

• The woman I loved is... dead.
• I came to write about truth, beauty, freedom, and that which I believed in above all things: love.
• Can't fall in love? But a life without love, that's terrible.
• You're going to be bad for business. I can tell.
• Come what may, I will love you until my dying day.
• Never fall in love with a woman who sells herself. It always ends bad.
• The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
• Tell our story Christian, that way I'll-I'll always be with you.
• Days turned into weeks, weeks turned into months. And then, one not-so-very special day, I went to my typewriter, I sat down, and I wrote our story. A story about a time, a story about a place, a story about the people. But above all things, a story about love. A love that will live forever.

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