Director: Baz Luhrmann
Copyright: 2001
Production: ?
Time: 127 minutes
Acting Talents: Nicole Kidman (as "Satine")
Ewan McGregor (as "Christian")
John Leguizamo (as "Henri Toulouse-Lautrec")
Jim Broadbent (as "Harold Zidler")
MPAA Rating: PG-13: Rated PG-13 for sexual content.
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Christian is a young writer who believes strongly in the power of love! Problem: He's never been in love before! Christian goes out to find inspiration for his writing in the big city, where he gets a job in writing for an acting troup. They go out to look for a female star to lead their play, and they check out the Moulin Rouge, a brothel. (I think...) Christian meets Satine, the most profitable (and beautiful) whore at the Moulin Rouge and instantly falls in love, but Christian isn't the only one hoping to steal Satine's heart...
It's so sad!! *cries buckets of tears* Ok, this movie is wonderfully different, as it has humor galore, actually more of a musical, with modern musical hits intermixed with the plot. Christian and Satine have beautiful voices, and compliment each other well.
BUT THIS IS NOT A KIDS MOVIE!!! (No matter how much I liked it...) IF YOU WANT YOUR KIDS TO REMAIN INNOCENT, DO NOT LET THEM SEE THIS MOVIE!! Ok, seriously, it takes place at a brothel. How innocent can it be? While we actually don't see any sex (Or do we and I didn't catch it?), it's often talked about, and there are tons of perverted sexual jokes, people wearing WAY too little, (esspecially Satine) general "whore-ish" behavior, sexual misunderstandings, partial nudity, (You know their naked but we can't see anything), perverts, not to mention tons of other things I didn't catch, can't remember, or just am not listing. The end!

Rated For:
Violence: Probably none

Sexual and Nudity: *blink blink* You can read it in the review

Language: Ok, I know there has to be language in a movie like this, but I can't remember...

Offence to Chirstianity: *don't remember*

Other: The ending was sad. *cries*

Cornfeild's Rating: PG-13

Quotes:

Christian: "Luckily, right at that moment and unconscious Argentinean fell through my roof."

Satine: "What's his type? Wilting flower? Bright and bubbly? Or smoldering temptress?"
Zidler: "I'd say... smoldering temptress."

Satine: "I can't believe it. I'm in love. I'm in love with a young, handsome, talented duke."
Christian: "Duke?"
Satine: "Not that the title's important, of course."
Christian: "I'm not a duke."
Satine: "Not a duke?"
Christian: "I'm a writer."
Satine: "A writer?"

Christian: "Wait. No, please wait. Before, when we were... when you thought I was the Duke, you said that you loved me, a- and I wondered if..."
Satine: "It was just an act?"
Christian: "Yes."
Satine: "Of course."
Christian: "Oh. It just felt real."
Satine: "Christian, I'm a courtesan. I'm paid to make men believe what they want to believe."

Christian: "Can't fall in love? But a life without love, that's terrible."

Christian: "Then I'll write a song and we'll put it in the show and whenever you sing it or hear it. Or whistle or hum it then you'll know. It'll mean that we love one another."

The Duke: "I don't like this ending."

Toulouse-Lautrec: "Christian, you may see me only as a drunken, vice-ridden gnome whose friends are just pimps and girls from the brothels. But I know about art and love, if only because I long for it with every fiber of my being."

Christian: [to the Duke] "This woman is yours now. I've paid my whore."
[to Satine] "I owe you nothing. And you are nothing to me. Thank you for curing me of my ridiculous obsession with love."

Toulouse-Lautrec: "I got it, I got it. Christian." [shouts] "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be love loved in return!"