Music Supervisor and Executive Music Producer, Anton Monsted, spends an hour with Mike Gee answering Moulin Rouge 's critics and explaining that it's the music that does much of the talking in the film. It's a freezing, wet, Saturday in Sydney. She tells one paper how her mother had helped ease the pain.
Every word is lapped up.
The emotion is remarkably palpable. And it works. The build-up is already staggering. And it's a Baz film. Baz the brilliant.