Moulin Rouge! new codes for new Times.

Abstract

Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001), completes what its director has called «The Red Curtain Trilogy». Many of the style elements that are the filmmaker’s trademark – the theatrical conventions, the mixed references, the intertextuality, the lavish mise en scene or the musical anachronism – are crystalized in this film. All these devices, not only shape the Luhrmann red curtain style, but also shape his postmodern auteur condition. Through a detailed analysis of the film and its production process we can see how all of this is manifested in the picture. When it was released, the movie was also defined as a revitalization of musical genre.