Word: moulins
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...reinvent herself as, simply, Nicole Kidman. Still, she isn't grieving for her former life. Despite a miscarriage last month and scandalous allegations surrounding their high-stakes divorce (Was he too devoted to Scientology? Was she too devoted to another man?), Kidman is out in force these days promoting Moulin Rouge, the extraordinary musical slated to kick off the Cannes Film Festival this week...
...merely a jettisoned planet in search of a new solar system? The answer may be found in two summer movies. The Others, coming from Miramax's Dimension Films in August, could turn out to be the season's horror sleeper. But first comes a far more out-there project, Moulin Rouge. When it starts hitting U.S. theaters May 18, the musical will probably have both critics and audiences debating whether it is art or just arty, and who knows if it can compete with the summer blockbuster bullies. This much is certain: you've never seen anything like it. Directed...
When the play closed, Kidman got on a plane to Sydney. "Luckily I have a house there, and Tom was there shooting [the sequel to] Mission: Impossible," she says. "It all seemed somehow to work out." For months the Moulin cast toiled (free of charge, according to Kidman, before 20th Century Fox gave the movie the go-ahead) in workshops at Luhrmann's Sydney headquarters, a rambling old mansion (and a former insane asylum). Everyone got into the spirit of the film. Kidman recalls treating herself to absinthe at Luhrmann's dinner table and dancing with a snake...
...Moulin Rouge was also delayed when Luhrmann's father died on the first day of shooting. Fox was ultimately forced to postpone the film's release, originally scheduled for last Christmas. "It means a hell of a lot to me," says Kidman of the movie, which finally came in at a cost of more than $50 million, "because I see how much it means to Baz. Also because it's a musical. If it does well, it will mean audiences are willing to embrace different things...
...least professionally. In The Others, Kidman stars as a 1940s British war widow with two children in a haunted country manor. Cruise doesn't co-star, but he is a producer on the movie. "I feel like I bled for that film," says Kidman, who shot it right after Moulin Rouge. "It burned me out. I hope it's good." Chilling and elegant, The Others will remind you that Cruise and Kidman can still make beautiful (if creepy) music together. Meanwhile, Moulin Rouge will show that Kidman can also make...