Word: huston
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moulin Rouge. Director John Huston's exuberant film biography of French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; with Jose Ferrer (TIME...
Moulin Rouge. Director John Huston's exuberant film biography of French Painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec; with José Ferrer (TIME...
Moulin Rouge (Romulus; United Artists). John Huston's film about the life and loves of Artist Toulouse-Lautrec; with Jose Ferrer (see below...
Director and Co-Author John (The African Queen) Huston has based his film on Pierre la Mure's bestselling 1950 novel, Moulin Rouge. Like the book, the picture takes some liberties with fact, e.g., by building up a romance between Lautrec and a streetwalker. Unavoidably, the film also softens the more Rabelaisian aspects of Lautrec's life; the fact that he was a star boarder at many of Paris' brothels is barely hinted at. But the picture is nonetheless an exuberant, bizarre, visually striking re-creation of an artist and an era, told, as in Lautrec...
...outstanding feature of the film is the exciting atmospheric photography. With LIFE Photographer Eliot Elisofon as special color consultant, Director Huston has dipped imaginatively into the Technicolor palette to capture on film much of the quality of Lautrec's own work. Shot in authentic Parisian settings, the picture features muted blue-green backgrounds splashed with hot pinks, burnt oranges and yellows as Lautrec's lonely little figure hobbles down Montmartre's cobblestone streets, or as the cancan dancers come on in the heat and haze of the Moulin Rouge in a swirl of black silk stockings...