Just captivating

Rating: 10/10 (17 July 2003)

This is the first and only movie up to now that i fell hopelessly and forever in love with just from its very beginning! all my friends (except one, who actually told me to see this film because it's already a classic) thought it was too melodramatic and maudlin, too sugary and mawkish, but for me it is more than a masterpiece. i was totally enthralled with it as early as the scene in which satine was hiding christian from the duke which is one of the funniest things i've ever seen in cinema (excluding a lot of memorable moments from "dumb&dumber" but this movie falls into a completely different category). i also adored the blazing style of all the dance scenes, all the colours and vibrance in them, the ingenuity of the adaptations of contemporary songs (which in other context, in other movie i would have thought inappropriate in the least) - my favourite is the tango of the argentinian. another of my favourite scenes is the one in which the duke is singing this elton john song - and he sings so heartbreakingly badly and makes such a face that somehow you start pitying him and, of course, you can never think of him as the bad guy in the way you think about bad guys in action movies for example.