Impossible to resist!

Rating: 9/10 (25 October 2001)

Last night, I saw Moulin Rouge! for the second time since it began its theatrical run. My girlfriend and I were pretty much alone in an old, delapidated, small-town movie theatre--you could hear the speakers annoyingly hissing with age during the previews. Suffice it to say that I was not expecting my second viewing of the film to be as powerful as the first. I found that the opening bit of craziness at the Moulin Rouge (with Zigler screaming, etc..) was a bit grating. Yet, once Ewan and Nicole start singing to each other, the movie grabs ahold of you and doesn't let go. These people seem to be so in love, it's incredible. I can't wait for the DVD to come out so I can be won over again and again by these two actors' brilliant performances.