Too much editing!

Rating: Null/10 (23 March 2002)

Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor are fabulous in this movie and it is well directed. The writing is standard for a musical: nothing great and passable but the choreography is expertly timed and the sets and costumes are lavish. But there is too much editing. Director Baz Luhrmann cuts his film too rapidly. Sure, rhythm is important to a film but his film is cut like an action piece and not a musical. Legendary dancer Fred Astaire would ask his directors to use the editing as little as possible during his dance numbers and the audience absorbed them perfectly. 'Moulin Rouge' is a return to the musical, a genre in movies that never impressed me much because I always felt that they needed to be seen live and that film just contained them too much and put them into a fish bowl.