Article: FILM REVIEW: Baz Luhrmann's 'Moulin Rouge' reinvents musical film genre

Cary Hughes
University Wire
05-31-2001
(The Chronicle) (U-WIRE) DURHAM, N.C. -- A night at the Moulin Rouge is a night well spent; Moulin Rouge is easily one of the best movies of the year. In the words of SNL's Will Ferrell, "It is so good, there are not words to describe its brilliance. So, I will make up a word. I will call it scrumptulescent."

Moulin Rouge is a movie, a musical and a play all rolled into one with original songs as well as new renditions of songs from the current top 40. At the turn of the century, Moulin Rouge was a Paris nightclub where men came from around the world to see scantily clad dancing women. Henri Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo) captured images of the ...

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