Erm, not bad, not keen on Nicole though

Rating: 6/10 (12 September 2001)

This has got to be a film you either love or hate. I went in there thinking it would be great and fantastic (my boyfriend went in thinking he would hate it). I came out cold and he came out jumping for joy. I knew I was hating it as soon as I started looking at my watch. If I love a film I don't care about the time, but I was clock watching. I didn't enjoy the start of it. Everyone was OTT. It was everywhere. I understand that it was supposed to be a crazy time. It did my head in. One could argue, it is a musical and it is a theatrical piece. Bobbins! It still was trying too hard at the start. Got to say that Nicole made a good entrance, but for some one with Consumption, she had a good set of lungs on her and looked well. As if! Do you know, but when I was little I always thought that Consumption was something that people who ate too much food got. Anyway, that aside. I like how they did new songs in the old setting, but I hated how they kept enveloping different songs into each other. And (perhaps it's because I'm a female and it is the law that females end up hating female leads if they are very beautiful), but I felt no sympathy for Nicole's Satine. I just couldn't wait for her to die. She was a completely cold character that was not sold on me at all. I thought that John Leguzi-whats-his-face was fab at Toulouse Lautrec and the Narcoleptic was a great part also. I preferred Romeo+Juliette and Strictly Ballroom. They wiped the floor with this film. Perhaps it's just me not "getting" it, but it was not the best film I saw this year.