Like a jukebox with a short circuit, Director Baz Luhrmann creates song, dance, and dialogue by piecing together over thirty popular songs from the twentieth century. His quirky anachronisms range from The Sound Of Music to Like A Virgin, and induce a feeling of d j vu. The MPAA rated Moulin Rouge PG-13 for sexual content. Although the creative use of golden oldies is humorous and even effective at times, the film is often reminiscent of a hallucinogenic experience and contains constant sexual content that oftimes glamorizes prostitution. Woman falls from swing, avoids injuries.
Woman coughs up small amount of blood on several occasions.
Man uses verbal pressure to manipulate a woman's behavior. Wrecking ball nearly hits unsuspecting man. Man wrestles with and strikes a woman whom he attempts to rape. Two scenes where one man punches another man. Man orders a hit-man to kill another man.