Not worth viewing (if you happen to like movies better than videoclips)

Rating: 1/10 (27 September 2001)

I went to see this movie with a great lot of aprehension. Having seen previously Romeo+Juliet, by the same director, I feared that his interesting ideas were again to be drowned in his visual incontinency. I was wrong: Moulin Rouge does not have a single idea to be drowned anywhere, just pure, empty, incontinency. William Shakespeare was not there to help the director out of his visual mess. Everything that could be bought by money (acting, art direction, costumes) is very good. But not a single idea, or a passion, or any of that sort, dares to surface in this long and boring piece. Curious enough for a movie that stammers about the difference between prostitution and love.