Rating: M - Sexual content
Running time: 2hrs 7mins
DOME SPOTLIGHT SCREENING
Friday, 11 July at 7pm
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
The 2001 eye-popping, toe-tapping spectacle with lavish set design and costumes that will make you dazzle. This is the final film in Luhrmann's 'Red Curtain trilogy' - followed behind Strictly Ballroom and Romeo + Juliet. Set against the backdrop of 19th Century Paris and the famed Montmartre cabaret, the story follows the doomed love affair between Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young poet, and Satine (Nicole Kidman), a courtesan and performer at the Moulin Rouge.
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub. The year is 1899, and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city's drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men alike come to be entertained by the dancers, but things take a wicked turn for Christian as he starts a deadly love affair with the star courtesan of the club, Satine. But her affections are also coveted by the club's patron: the Duke. A dangerous love triangle ensues as Satine and Christian attempt to fight all odds to stay together but a force that not even love can conquer is taking its toll on Satine...
Award Winner - Best Art Direction, Costume Design; Academy Awards 2002. Best Film (Comedy/Musical), Golden Globes 2002.
Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman performed their own singing in Moulin Rouge