Word: moulins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...listed among Variety's 119 pictures were such comparative late starters as Limelight, Moulin Rouge, Come Back, Little Sheba...
...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...
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...
...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 and white lace petticoats. At its visual best, the picture is a Lautrec painting come to life: it has the nervous, whip-cracking line, the absinthe bite, the very color of corruption of Lautrec's Paris...