Moulin Rouge!

Director: Baz Luhrmann
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Richard Roxburgh, Jim Broadbent, John Leguizamo
Runtime: 127'
Year of Production: 2001

“This story is about truth, beauty, freedom, but above all things, this story is about love”: in 2001, and in a world that was not ready yet, Baz Luhrmann completes the “Red Curtain Trilogy”, transforming the legendary “Red Windmill” in the heart of Paris into a towering and glittering jukebox. From the windows and the scaffolding to its sinful interiors, one could even hear the passions of the whole of the moonit Monmarte. In the main hall and the private rooms, some of the greatest radio hits of all times weave with their lyrics the cursed romance between Christian and Satine, a writer ready to surrender to the indulgences of bohemian life and a dancer who grew up in cabarets and is preparing to marry a greedy duke.

But fate will catch up with them, the same one that seals all cinema's best melodramas, like those to which Baz Luhrmann’s genuine spectacle aspires to resemble. “Moulin Rouge!” remains the ultimate Hollywood phantasmagoria on a planet that has forgotten how to be impressed. And despite the dancing, the music, the stardust, the fireworks and the myriad pop mentions displayed every second, it does not let you forget, not for a moment, “the greatest thing you’ll ever learn in your life”. Thodoris Karamanolis

Ιn collaboration with the Mykonos Art Festival