MOULIN ROUGE is a turning point for cinema. This might be the most important film in the next five years. Luhrmann dazzles us with images that excite and provoke and will influence our culture. MOULIN ROUGE dramatically brings a highly emotional story to life. It's a story fueled with jealousy, deceit, class struggle and sex.
      
Shakespeare wrote his plays for the people. MOULIN ROUGE is an opera for us using the music of our time. The Elton John and Bernie Taupin love song, "Your Song" is the film's anthem. In the film it is performed by Ewan McGregor and Placido Domingo. It works beautifully. The lyrics to "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" and "I Was Made for Lovin' You" are trite, but this is what we have

built our emotional lives on. We laugh with delight when Christian's love talk to Satine (Kidman) is based entirely on lyrics from the Lennon and McCartney "classic" "All You Need Is Love." Everything innovative about this film works.
 
The sensuality of the gorgeous production gives it a visual orgy of lust and desire that frames the love story.
  
The writers, Luhrmann and Craig Pearce, are too good Besides jealousy and desire, there's the male ego and, in this case, the lure of money!

the choreography, the music - the entire production is breathtaking.
   
Christian (Ewan McGregor) a poor, starving writer is enticed into the bohemian world of Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo) and the depraved world of the Moulin Rouge. McGregor can sing! There's real sexual chemistry with Kidman. Christian is an innocent, but McGregor gives him a youth-driven passion for the ideal of love symbolized by the courtesan Satine that it infuses his portrayal with joy.