Article: LIFE IS A CABARET The Moulin Rouge is a byword for bohemian excess. But Lise Sarfati's backstage photographs of Paris's most famous nightclub, show a world that's infinitely more strange and sad

After months of pre-publicity, Baz Luhrmann's kitsch extravaganza Moulin Rouge is finally about to hit our screens. This, as you might suppose, is set in Paris in the 1890s and stars all the usual suspects of belle epoque Montmartre, namely: a singing novelist called Christian (Ewan McGregor); Satine (Nicole Kidman), a stone- hearted dancer-cum-tart; The Duke (Richard Roxburgh), a lascivious aristocrat; a cabaret owner who offers to sell him Satine's sexual favours; and - yes - Comte Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, dropping broad hints about the birth of Post-Impressionism. It's a rich - some might say sickly - confection.

Then calm your stomach with these behind-the-scenes pictures of the ...

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