Review of Moulin Rouge! (2001) by Zosiaj — 15 Jun 2019

Luhrmann usually gives us stylistic films with substance, but he falls extremely short here. The style is used to disguise the fact that the plot makes little sense and that they are ruining generally highly regarded songs (e.

G. The Show Must Go On). The only moment in the film I could enjoy for what it was was the Roxanne scene. Beautiful imagery and symbolism and provided characterisation to a character previously used as simply comic relief (though the outrageous nature of the film hardly needs a comic relief character).

If the whole film and been like that, I would have certainly enjoyed it much more.