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AUSTRALIA · 2001
Moulin Rouge!
Synopsis
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
Cinema Atlas Connection
Baz Luhrmann has said he flew to Mumbai specifically to experience Bollywood from inside the audience — not to research, but to feel it. He sat in a packed cinema and watched Raj Kapoor's Shree 420 and understood immediately what a musical could be: communal, ecstatic, unapologetically emotional. Kapoor was called the Charlie Chaplin of India. Awara and Shree 420 are the two films that taught Luhrmann the register Moulin Rouge! needed.
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