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Moulin Rouge (1952) [VHS] | ![Moulin Rouge (1952) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21FNXZNPJVL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: John Huston
Actors: Jos Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Claude Nollier
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Rating:  41 reviews
Format: Color, Ntsc
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 119 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6301972139
UPC: 027616173430
EAN: 9786301972130
Theatrical Release Date: December 23, 1952
Release Date: September 1, 1998
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It was one of the top 10 grossing films of 1952 and garnered seven Oscar nominations, but Moulin Rouge is neglected today. Not to be confused with the Baz Luhrmann-Nicole Kidman extravaganza, this is a color-soaked tale of Toulouse-Lautrec (Jose Ferrer), based on a romanticized novel about the artist's life. Director John Huston explores the discrepancy between the creation of exquisite art and the messy business of living--especially messy for the growth-stunted, alcoholic painter, whose affairs revolve around prostitutes. The soap-opera aspects of the storyline limit the picture (as does the distracting fact of Ferrer walking on his knees), but it has some gorgeous things in it. The experiments in color photography (which horrified the Technicolor people) are spectacularly successful, and the movie won Oscars for set decoration and costumes. George Auric's haunting melody became a standard, so lovely even the dubbed performance of Zsa Zsa Gabor couldn't hurt it. --Robert Horton
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 Toulouse Lautrec avec la gouine et la goulue in English March 24, 2010
Mariguitarra
I cannot say enough nice things about this film. First of all, despite the tragic life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, this is a happy movie. The exuberance of the can-can dancers and the sparkle of Zsa Zsa Gabor play away from Lautrec's loneliness and alcoholic despair while making the viewer more sympathetic. The script is admirably balanced, and the character development is superb. But herein lies the movie's weakness, which is that it tells more about these people than about Lautrec's study and growth as an artist. In contrast, the Van Gogh bio-movie Lust for Life, tells more about how Vincent learned to paint, the long hours he spent, the practicing, the frustrations with instruction, than it tells about the supporting characters. But viewers should certainly forgive this lack, epecially those who are into Art and who already know just how much work it takes; nobody sits down before an easel and dabbles out a masterpiece in fifteen minutes; there is a lifetime of ability, perserverance and individualization realized in every stroke of the brush. Another plus is that this film really captures the spirit of "The Gay Nineties." Also, it gives a pretty good idea of the Art Market; showing the dealer, the collector and among the customers, a King! This is a film that should be viewed with a bottle of French Champagne,a feather boa, and a poodle with a very frou-frou bow around its neck!
movies worth owning October 8, 2009
The Reader (Your closest library, USA)
This is a great biography of a truly gifted artist. It brings Paris to life in both its grand side and its seamy side. It is a pg movie with a lot of information about laTrec and also the times and the reasons for his art and his death. If you like Jose Ferrer, it is one of the two greatest movies in which he ever starred. His other great movie is "Cyrano de Bergerac."
A great classic November 21, 2008
Richard Franks
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
One of the great films of one of the most famous artists of all time. Jose Ferrer is fabulous, the scenery is fabulous, the story is perfectly done. A true color classic.
The Other MOULIN ROUGE October 25, 2008
Michael B. Druxman (Austin, TX)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Mention MOULIN ROUGE and most folks will think of Nicole Kidman and the ground-breaking 2001 musical in which she sang and danced to perfection.
However, back in 1952, there was another (non-musical) MOULIN ROUGE, and most people who remember this John Huston-directed classic consider it to be one of the greatest films of that decade.
It also produced a title song that has become a standard.
Huston's film received seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. It won for Art Direction and Costuming, but lost the top honor, as did HIGH NOON and THE QUIET MAN, to Cecil B. DeMille's THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH. [Go figure!]
Visually stunning, MOULIN ROUGE stars Oscar-nominated Jose Ferrer as both famed artist Toulouse-Lautrec and his father.
A dwarf, Lautrec believes that he is too ugly to ever attract a woman, thus he devotes his life to painting and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-off-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, he meets and falls in love with a streetwalker (Colette Marchand), who breaks his heart. Later, he is unable to recognize true affection from another woman (Suzanne Flon).
Zsa Zsa Gabor co-stars as a singer at the nightclub who also has romantic problems. Future Hammer horror icons Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee have brief roles.
MGM/UA Home Entertainment has done a commendable job in transferring this color-rich film onto DVD.
Michael B. Druxman
Art; Life; the Gutter & the Chateau October 19, 2008
Blockhed Blockhed (UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Among the most interesting aspects of this powerful story were the strong, if not subtle, contrasts. To get the niggles out of the way: many features jarred, to an extent: the dubbed singing, the easily detectable fake chin and nose, the completely unconvincing abbreviated legs. However, they didn't actually seem to matter. The story was rather simplistic, but that didn't seem to matter either. Somehow there was a truth to it, which completely escaped the Luhrmann production. Not that that was about Toulouse-Lautrec, anyway. There was an analysis of a spectrum of human reactions to the circumstances into which people happen to be born: as aristocrats who may not work but nevertheless have certain standards of conduct, as cripples who need to compensate, as prudent working women who make a go of it, as stars who can't cope, as alley-cats who sell themselves for their pimps. The performances were all perfectly good, within the constraints of the narrative. It seemed to be sentimental, but it actually wasn't. The dancing was terrific. The atmosphere might have been 50s Hollywood, but it nonetheless felt quite French. Curious final effect: the whole was better than the parts, and it's a definitely a film worth watching more than once.
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