Starring Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor and John Leguizamo
Directed by Baz Lurhmann
In 1899 France, a young poet named Christian (McGregor) defies his bourgeois father, leaves his family home and moves to the seedy, bohemian underworld of Montmartre, Paris. He is taken in by Toulouse-Lautrec (Leguizamo) and his entourage, and is drafted to write a nightclub spectacular. Through his relationship with Toulouse, Christian meets Satine (Kidman), the most beautiful courtesan in Paris and star of the Moulin Rouge nightclub. Besotted by her beauty, he and Satine enter into a passionate – but ultimately doomed – love affair.