Moulin Rouge! kick started the current musical trend, and no other musical in the last decade had as much emotional impact or innovation. The film stars Ewan McGregor as Christian, a down-and-out writer in turn-of-the-century Paris who falls in love with a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, the beautiful Satine (Nicole Kidman). From the opening seconds of the film, we realize this is no ordinary musical. First, it is fast and confusing and about as avant-garde as mainstream films get. Second, the musical numbers are all pop songs infused into a foreign time and place. Moulin Rouge! was Baz Luhrmann’s follow up to Romeo + Juliet, another film that blurred the lines between what you see and what you hear. With Moulin Rouge! he not only gave us the best musical of the decade, but one of its best films. The Roxanne Tango is one of the best edited sequences I’ve seen on film.
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