Wickedly romantic in a blaze of extraordinary color

Rating: Null/10 (20 May 2001)

Those who may remember Zsa Zsa Gabor in the 1950's version by director John Huston and hope that this one is similar, leave the room now. Aussie style meister Baz Lurhman in collaboration with his designer wife Catherine Martin and director of photography Don McAlpine have made Moulin Rouge their own. Nicole Kidman holds a tune to perfection singing a few songs on a soundtrack so diverse with something for everbody indeed. She plays the untouchable unless you have money, a-lot of it, main attraction at Paris's most famous night club. Along comes a gifted poet (Ewan Mc Gregor) who has a knack for writing romance in prose which will in-turn become famous romantic songs in the future. They're unlikely love affair is opposed by an evil, rich English Duke (Richard Roxburgh) and he will stop at nothing to bed his woman. This film does not let you take a breath. Filmed entirely at Fox Studios Australia in Sydney, Moulin Rouge dazzled me and is wickedly romantic in a blaze of extrordinary color.