Paris, Montmartre, the Moulin Rouge. The film tells a tragic love story set to the sounds of pop, rock and techno music, just as director Baz Luhrmann had done with “Romeo + Juliet”. Christian (Ewan McGregor) is an Englishman who had a middle-class upbringing and arrives in Paris dreaming of becoming a writer or poet. In Montmartre, with T. Rex’s “Children of the Revolution” playing in the background, he meets a group of bohemian Parisian artists, led by the painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, who introduce him to the pleasures of absinthe and the French cabaret. They suggest that Christian write a play for the Moulin Rouge. And it is there that he meets Satine (Nicole Kidman), the most beautiful courtesan in Paris, during a meeting with the cabaret’s manager. Christian pretends to be a duke and quickly falls in love with Satine. But the real duke, who is wealthy, turns up and wants to marry Satine at any cost…

Starring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent
Drama, Musical, 127 mins, 2001, Australia, USA