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Article: `MOULIN ROUGE!': POP ART AND ARTIFICE.(Spotlight)(Review)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- May 26, 2001
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Byline: Robert Denerstein News Film Critic
Love is a many splendored thing.
Love is all you need.
These lines, familiar from popular songs, can be heard in Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge!, which recently opened the Cannes Film Festival and has its national release Friday.
The movie, which undoubtedly will divide audiences and critics, takes a cue from the opera La Boheme, setting a 19th century story in Paris. A variety of artistic types, including Toulouse-Lautrec, try to mount a play in the Moulin Rouge nightclub in Montmartre, the turn-of-the-century equivalent of Sin City, dazzle capital of Europe, a place where vice and showmanship danced cheek to cheek.
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