Moulin Rouge! (2001)
85%RT Audience Score: 89%
Awards & Nominations: Won 2 Oscars
87 wins & 132 nominations total
A love-it-or-hate-it experience, Moulin Rouge is all style, all giddy, over-the-top spectacle. But it’s also daring in its vision and wildly original
Moulin Rouge is like a wild party that you can’t help but get swept up in. It’s flashy, over-the-top, and unapologetically artificial, but that’s what makes it so much fun. The music is infectious, the visuals are stunning, and the romance is swoon-worthy. Sure, it may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but if you’re in the mood for a good time, Moulin Rouge is the perfect movie to get lost in. Just don’t forget to bring your dancing shoes!
Production Company(ies)
Eisei Gekijo Hakuhodo Nippon Shuppan Hanbai K. K.
Distributor
20th Century Fox
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Madrid, Spain
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for sexual content
Year of Release
2001
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:DTS Dolby Digital SDDS
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:2h 6m
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Language(s):English, French, Spanish
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Jun 1, 2001 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 18, 2001
Genre(s)
Musical/Drama
Keyword(s)
starring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh, Garry McDonald, directed by Baz Luhrmann, written by Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce, musical, drama, PG-13 rating, box office gross of $57.4M, reviewed by David Ansen, Todd McCarthy, Jeannette Catsoulis, Mike Massie, Debbie Lynn Elias, Andrew L Urban, Garth Franklin, A.S Hamrah, Romeo + Juliet, Moulin Rouge soundtrack, Parisian nightclub, love affair, creative inspiration, gaudy, glamorous, notorious, beautiful star, Duke of Worcester, The Doctor, Toulouse-Lautrec, Zidler, Fred Baron, Martin Brown, 20th Century Fox, Surround sound, Dolby SR, Dolby Digital, Dolby Stereo, Scope (2.35:1)
Worldwide gross: $184,935,320
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $311,669,358
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 485
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 33,987,934
US/Canada gross: $57,386,607
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $96,712,986
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 769
US/Canada opening weekend: $167,540
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $282,353
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,557
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $50,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $84,264,422
Production budget ranking: 496
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $45,376,391
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $182,028,544
ROI to date (est.): 140%
ROI ranking: 798
Ewan McGregor – Christian
John Leguizamo – Toulouse-Lautrec
Jim Broadbent – Zidler
Richard Roxburgh – Duke of Worcester
Garry McDonald – The Doctor
Director(s)
Baz Luhrmann
Writer(s)
Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
Producer(s)
Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron, Martin Brown
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Won 2 Oscars
87 wins & 132 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Achievement in Art Direction Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Costume Design Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Winners
All Critics (200) | Top Critics (52) | Fresh (152) | Rotten (48)
Moulin Rouge seems to defy esthetic gravity: by reveling in all things artificial, it arrives, giddily, at the genuine.
March 8, 2018
David Ansen
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
It’s still a one-of-a-kind, we’ll give it that. But its sense of fun is so relentless and excessive, it all ends up being extremely tedious and shallow.
February 14, 2013 | Rating: 2/5
David Jenkins
Little White Lies
TOP CRITIC
Moulin Rouge is a tour de force of artifice, a dazzling pastiche of musical and visual elements at the service of a blatantly artificial story.
July 6, 2010
Todd McCarthy
Variety
TOP CRITIC
Mr. Luhrmann and his colleagues have worked like whirling dervishes to make the plot look like it’s moving.
April 27, 2007
Andrew Sarris
Observer
TOP CRITIC
If it lacks the emotional punch of Luhrmann’s earlier films, and drags towards the end, it is still great fun.
February 9, 2006
Geoff Andrew
Time Out
TOP CRITIC
‘Gorgeously decadent, massively contrived, and gloriously superficial.’
March 22, 2005 | Rating: 2.5/5
Jeannette Catsoulis
Las Vegas Mercury
TOP CRITIC
Bombastic, romantic and inventive, Moulin Rouge not only hooks you with its great soundtrack, but also with its entire production value and execution. Doesn’t matter when or how, but it’ll move you. [Full review in Spanish]
July 30, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
Fico Cangiano
CineXpress Podcast
The considerable quirkiness and inventiveness win out, as does the fairytale romance.
March 24, 2021 | Rating: 8/10
Mike Massie
Gone With The Twins
In short, Kidman and McGregor shine like diamonds in the sky, proving once again that at least in movies, there is no greater thing than to love and be loved in return – or to have big box office in Hollywood.
November 13, 2019
Debbie Lynn Elias
Behind The Lens
Moulin Rouge is a seductive and original film, a turbocharged tribute to romanticism.
October 29, 2018
Andrew L. Urban
Urban Cinefile
As is… its still an extremely good movie with visuals and songs performed in a way that certainly make it worth seeing in the cinema.
October 29, 2018
Garth Franklin
Dark Horizons
If its goal was to reveal the emptiness of postmodern bricolage at the blockbuster level, it has succeeded. By any other standard, it’s a mess.
October 29, 2018
A.S. Hamrah
In These Times…
Plot
The year is 1899, and Christian, a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city’s drug and prostitute infested underworld. And nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men alike come to be entertained by the dancers, but things take a wicked turn for Christian as he starts a deadly love affair with the star courtesan of the club, Satine. But her affections are also coveted by the club’s patron: the Duke. A dangerous love triangle ensues as Satine and Christian attempt to fight all odds to stay together but a force that not even love can conquer is taking its toll on Satine…
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
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