Romance and music in Paris! The jukebox musical Moulin Rouge, which movie critic Roger Ebert as soon as in comparison with “being trapped on an elevator with the circus,” hit theaters on Could 18, 2001.
The 2001 movie, directed and co-written by Baz Luhrmann, begins with English author Christian (Ewan McGregor) telling the story of his lover Satine (Nicole Kidman) who handed away. Christian recounts his transfer to Paris in 1899 to stay the Bohemian life-style, the place he met Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo) and his troupe of performers. The younger author quickly fell for Satine, the star of the Moulin Rouge cabaret. However the jealous Duke of Monroth (Richard Roxburgh) wished the actress for himself and threatened to kill Christian. Though the love story ends in tragedy, the heartbroken Englishman writes all of it down, vowing to maintain Satine in his coronary heart endlessly.
The movie was a industrial success, making $179.2 million on a $50 million finances. It obtained eight Academy Award nominations in 2002, together with Finest Image, successful for Finest Costume Design and Finest Manufacturing Design. A Broadway musical model of the movie opened in July 2019. The variation received ten Tony Awards, together with Finest New Musical, in 2021.
Whereas talking at a 2020 Selection press occasion for the musical, Luhrmann commented on why Moulin Rouge had grow to be extra related than ever.
“Overwhelmingly, the theme of the present is concerning the bohemian supreme,” the Nice Gatsby director defined. “Now that’s mentioned in a comic book means — ‘Fact, magnificence, freedom and love’ — however I believe, even significantly on this planet we’re in now … individuals haven’t any inventive work. Issues are dangerous. Shakespeare knew issues have been dangerous once you needed to shut theaters. And so I take into consideration younger [people], the beliefs and the concept of inventive beliefs and preventing to placed on a present and inform a narrative that has some extent to it: Which means one thing that uplifts the spirit.”
Kidman, who was nominated for an Academy Award for Moulin Rouge in 2002, went to see the musical adaptation in 2019. The Useless Calm actress posed with Karen Olivo, who originated the position of Satine on Broadway, on the theater. “Two glowing diamonds in a single night time,” the musical’s official Instagram account captioned a photograph of the 2 actresses.
Sixteen years after Moulin Rouge hit theaters, McGregor and Kidman reminisced about their expertise throughout a 2017 dialog with Selection.
“I simply bear in mind you having this beautiful voice and me going, ‘I’m by no means going to have the ability to hit these notes,’” Kidman informed her former costar. The Star Wars alum contested the assertion on the time, arguing, “No, that’s not true. We have been all in the identical boat.” He spoke fondly about how collaborative the movie was, saying, “All these workshops we did, we’d work on a scene after which per week later the work that we’d executed on it as actors would have been included within the writing. And that by no means occurs. That’s very uncommon.”
The Rabbit Gap actress agreed. “It’s simply beautiful. It’s such an important factor to share. I all the time say this: once you get to share one thing like that collectively, it’s yours endlessly. It’s one thing all of us created collectively and it bonds you in a really explicit means, doesn’t it,” she mentioned.
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