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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
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 2, 2001
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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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