Moulin Rouge!

Moulin Rouge! is a 2001 musical film which tells the story of a young British poet, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge cabaret, Satine. It uses the colourful musical setting of the Montmartre Quarter of Paris, France. Some plot details, specifically the poor artist and his dying lover, bear relation to the Giacomo Puccini opera La bohème (which Baz Luhrmann has also directed several times), including references to the "Bohemian" subculture. The plot was also inspired by the Greek myth of Orpheus in the Underworld and echoes the story of Giuseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata.

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2001 - Musical film - British - Poet - Moulin Rouge - Cabaret - Montmartre Quarter - Paris - France - Giacomo Puccini - Opera - La bohème - Bohemian - Greek - Myth - Orpheus - Giuseppe Verdi - La Traviata

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