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Article: Film Moulin Rouge Reflects Cafe Concert Trend.
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- Art Business News
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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Whether or not you love the opulent fantasy musical, this summer's Moulin Rouge has inspired a wave of fashion and style imitators. Will it do the same for the art world?
Set in the glamorous and notorious Paris nightclub in 1899, the $52.5 million movie musical Moulin Rouge celebrates the famed "rendezvous du high life" with period design and modern pop tunes seen through a 21st-century lens. The film is filled with opulent and garish hues, beautiful, seductive women and, as one
reviewer pointed out, more red velvet per square inch than any movie ever made.
It would seem the time is ripe for a film about the era. These days, French lithographic ...