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Moulin Rouge 2001

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Moulin Rouge
12A (Contains moderate sexual references)
Cast
Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, Jacek Koman, Matthew Whittet, Kerry Walker, Caroline O'Connor
Director
Baz Luhrmann
Producer
Emma McGuinness, Martin Brown, Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron, Miguel Gil
Writer
Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
Duration
02:06:00
Official Site
http://www.clubmoulinrouge.com/
Release
Friday September 7 2001
Genres
Drama, Musical, Romance
Distributor
20th Century Fox

Synopsis

Christian, a young writer with a magical gift for poetry, defies his bourgeois father by moving to the bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. He is taken in by the absinthe- soaked artist Toulouse- Lautrec, whose party- hard life centers aound the Moulin Rouge, a world of sex, drugs, electricity and the shocking Can-Can. Christian falls into a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair with Satine, the Sparkling Diamond, the most beautiful courtesan in Paris and star of the Moulin Rouge.

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Production photos

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