Overwhelming

Rating: 10/10 (31 October 2001)

For me Moulin Rouge is one of the best films, if not the best film I have seen this year.I was really overwhelmed, and I had not expected it at all.
The way of filming, the scenery, the casting, it was for me 100% successful, convincing. But above all this is the film of Ewan Mcgregor, he is astonishing in his performance, he IS Christian. I only knew him from Emma (with Gwyneth Paltrow), as Frank Churchill with the awful wig , and also there he proves he is a good singer. But what he is showing us in Moulin Rouge is a total different Ewan,he certainly is one of the most versatile, talented young actors of the moment. I really do hope he will be able to enchant us again, maybe in the new Phantom of The Opera, he would be the ultimate Raoul !