Moulin Rouge!

This article is about the 2001 motion picture. For other uses, see Moulin Rouge (disambiguation) Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 musical film directed by Baz Luhrmann, based largely on the Giuseppe Verdi opera, "La Traviata." It tells the story of a young British poet/writer, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and courtesan Satine. It uses the musical setting of the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France. The film was nominated for eight Oscars, and won two; for art direction and costume design. It was shot at Fox Studios in Sydney, Australia. In 2006 Moulin Rouge ranked twenty-fifth on the American Film Institute's list of best musicals. The year is 1900 and Christian (Ewan McGregor), a British writer who came to the village of Montmartre, Paris at the height of the Bohemian movement a year before, sits in a garret overlooking the closed-down theatre Moulin Rouge and writes on a typewriter. The story he is writing is about both himself and the... full article at wikipedia