Moulin Rouge!

Last Saturday (I thought it was Friday, then I realised I spent Friday night catching up on Once Upon a Time - will post about that later) I saw Moulin Rouge! for the first time. I know, as a fan of musicals I should have seen it before, but I just never got around to it (actually there are several musicals I have yet not seen, many of which I would like to see this summer so reviews may pop up).  

For those of you who don't know: it's about a young writer named Christian (Ewan McGregor) who goes to Paris just before the turn of the century (19th-20th) to write about the bohemian revolution - beauty, freedom and above all (in his eyes) love. He meets a theatrical group, led by Toulousse, which asks him to write them a play, and get Zidler to agree to put it on/sponsor it. Zidler is the owner of the brothel - Moulin Rouge - across the street, and the best way to get to him is through Satine (Nicole Kidman) - the star of the Moulin Rouge. Through a series of misunderstandings Christian and Satine meet and fall in love. The show is to be produced. They just have one obstacle (or so Christian thinks): the duke producing the play is in love with Satine. 

I liked it. I thought the beginning would make me epileptic and the "Like a Virgin"-number was like bad Glee on crack (I got the Glee association from them actually doing that cover in the first season, otherwise just some bad singing on crack) otherwise I rather enjoyed the musical numbers. Come What May and Your Song are definitely my favourites, but that might be because I've heard and liked them before. (Come What May with Klaine, I mean come one, of course I love it). The dance group I'm in at KI have done Roxanne as a number, and I just like that so much so I found the number in Moulin Rouge a bit all over the place. I liked the plot and the characters, and I think the casting director did a good job in getting Kidman and McGregor as the leads. In total, the experience of the movie was maybe a 3 out of 5, but cut the Like A Virgin and the intro and it probably would have gotten a 4 from me (it should definitely be added that I'm always too nice when rating stuff). 

Some of the music: 

 Come What May
Really bad Glee on crack (Like A Virgin)
El Tango De Roxanne
Your Song

xoxo
Frida