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Bookmark this pageMoulin Rouge (1952)
Director: John Huston
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From Time Out Film Guide
Lumpish biopic, historically laughable as it pursues Hollywood's perennial view of the artist as solitary and star-crossed in both life and love. What taste can do, Huston does, abetted by Paul Sheriff's set designs and some fine colour camerawork from Oswald Morris. But playing Toulouse Lautrec on his knees, Ferrer could equally well be begging for mercy from the script. Best bit is the first reel, which evokes the spirit of Paris in the Naughty Nineties in a swirling mass of colour and movement.Author: TM
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Cast & crew
Director: John Huston
Cast: José Ferrer, Colette Marchand, Suzanne Flon, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Katherine Kath, Eric Pohlmann, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing full cast
Duration: 123 mins
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