ROMANCE DOWN AT THE MOULIN ROUGE: A SPECIAL VALENTINE'S DAY SCREENING OF "MOULIN ROUGE!" February 14, 2009

Celebrate Valentine's Day down at the Moulin Rouge, and get swept away with a special romance-drenched screening of the swoony, sweaty, spectacular 2001 musical MOULIN ROUGE!
Cross LA BOHÈME with CABARET, throw in a little bit of RENT, and you might almost begin to describe director Baz Luhrmann's visually opulent, fast-paced, funny, heartrending extravaganza. The film, which garnered a whopping eight Oscar nominations (including Best Picture and Best Actress) is a musical fantasy of star-crossed lovers searching for romance (and ultimately finding tragedy) in 1899 Paris at the notorious Montmartre cabaret club, the Moulin Rouge.
Nicole Kidman stars as the high-kicking courtesan, Satine; Ewan McGregor as the sensitive poet, Christian; and John Leguizamo as the flamboyant artist and matchmaker, Toulouse-Lautrec. Luhrmann's use of eclectic lighting and saturated color, the fast zooms and quick cuts of his camera, and the tricked-out costumes and sets perfectly capture the excess and freneticism for which the Moulin Rouge was famous, as the film spectacularly brings to life the culture of belle époque Paris with sweetly saucy magical realism.
Before the movie kicks off, we'll set the Valentine's mood with a free raffle for romantic goodies and a group sing-a-long to the film's romantically raunchy hit song LADY MARMALADE, from Christina Aguilera and company. Voulez vous coucher avec moi, ce soir?

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