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List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Color • DVD-Video • Full Screen • Subtitled • NTSC In Theaters : 23 December, 1952 DVD Release : 15 June, 2004 |
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Moulin Rouge description It was one of the top 10 grossing films of 1952 and garnered seven Oscar nominations, but Moulin Rouge is neglected today. Not to be confused with the Baz Luhrmann-Nicole Kidman extravaganza, this is a color-soaked tale of Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer), based on a romanticized novel about the artist's life. Director John Huston explores the discrepancy between the creation of exquisite art and the messy business of living--especially messy for the growth-stunted, alcoholic painter, whose affairs revolve around prostitutes. The soap-opera aspects of the storyline limit the picture (as does the distracting fact of Ferrer walking on his knees), but it has some gorgeous things in it. The experiments in color photography (which horrified the Technicolor people) are spectacularly successful, and the movie won Oscars for set decoration and costumes. George Auric's haunting melody became a standard, so lovely even the dubbed performance of Zsa Zsa Gabor couldn't hurt it. --Robert Horton |
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| One of the best movies of its time is little more now than a "period piece". Indeed, the movie's terrific theme song has stood the test of time much better than the movie. Paris in 1890 is not exactly a "big draw" to today's movie goers.Ferrer, on the other hand, does a masterful job in playing Toulouse-Lautrec, brilliantly portraying the handicapped artist whose sketchings and posters hang today in the Louvre. But, the overall production seems prolonged and repetitious, and the fast paced banter of the actors seems difficult to follow.Since its release in 1952, many other films including "Rainman" and "Forrest Gump" seem also to have pushed director Huston's "masterpiece" aside. Now, however, if Kate Winslet and Leo DiCaprio would care to try an updated version... | |
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