Moulin Rouge

Direction: Baz Luhrmann, 2001, 127 min., doors open 19:30, starts 20:00 Admission: 5 euros Reservations: info@plusetage.nl Regisseur Luhrmann serves us a simple, yet effective and poignant love story, which, adorned with music and songs, becomes a bona fide musical. But spice this up with an unrivaled mix of anachronistic pop, rock, and disco songs, countless other references to 20th-century culture, virtuoso camera work, sharp and flashy editing, overwhelming set designs, stunning sets, and sublime actors, and the whole becomes irresistible. It is an opera and a carnival parade all at once, a wonderland on LSD, Disney without mice, a pulp romance with balls. This is what Shakespeare's version of a Greek tragedy would have looked like, and Apocalypse Now under the influence of absinthe. A spectacle, but with a heart! And then we haven't even mentioned the film's strongest asset: McGregor and Kidman. He: as always convincing, acting with heart and soul, portraying a cautious hero. She: full of fire and passion, rarely so masterly, with total surrender.