this story is about all that matters!

Rating: 8/10 (17 October 2001)

Baz's "Moulin Rouge!" is the final movie-theatrical-piece-of-art, and you know what?, it's also the best. From australian+gipsy "Strictly Ballroom", delirious "Romeu+Juliet" to this fantas-delirious "Moulin Rouge!", we have nothing to complain about.
Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman definitely sing not only the songs, but their bodies and feelings as well in such a delicate and at the same time passionate way that we can only love the whole piece!
The art direction is just......... super!
music is... well, just listen to it! When you think that in the same hour you can have Nirvana and Elton John together, you just gotta hate it or kiss the guy who got the courage to go through with the idea!
"Moulin Rouge!" is simple, as simple is this: you love it, hate it, or just didn't get the bohemian values, so it means nothing for you.
My modest opinion: It's a great film, one of the top 3 of 2001, and it's sad that this is the end of Baz's "Red Curtain" movies. His work with Craig Pearce with the stories and dialogues has been great, and let's just hope for the best that they can give us in the future.
For the present, enjoy the past of Paris, with a love story so tragic as delicate, a love story at the Moulin Rouge.
And congratulations for the eternal and probably the best sentence of the last 3 years at movies:
"the greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return"
;) RIC