Moulin Rouge 1952

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 119 min

genre: historical

theme: romantic drama

director: John Huston

Score: 5 / 10

Moulin Rouge is a 1952 British historical romantic drama film directed by John Huston from a screenplay he co-wrote with Anthony Veiller, based on the 1950 novel of the same name by Pierre La Mure, and produced by John and James Woolf. The film follows artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in 19th-century Paris's bohemian subculture in and around the Moulin Rouge, a burlesque palace. The film was screened at the 14th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion.

Plot

In 1890 Paris, crowds pour into the Moulin Rouge nightclub as artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec finishes a bottle of cognac while sketching the club's dancers. The club's regulars arrive: singer Jane Avril teases Henri charmingly, dancers La Goulue and Aicha fight, and owner Maurice Joyant offers Henri free drinks for a month in exchange for painting a promotional poster. At closing time, Henri waits for the crowds to disperse before standing to reveal his four-foot six-inch stature. A flashback reveals that, as a boy, Henri fell down a flight of stairs and injured his legs, which never healed properly due to a genetic disorder (his aristocrat parents were first cousins), leading him to devote himself to art.

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author	Anthony Veiller John Huston Pierre La Mure
award	Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color
contentLocation	Paris
director	John Huston
editor	Ralph Kemplen
genre	drama historical romance
keywords	aristocrat bite closing time cockroach dance hall deathbed delirium tremens dive bar dress shop even first cousins flea market genetic disorder henri de toulouse-lautrec injured jane avril la goulue make up model montmartre morning moulin rouge new life one night paint poison pont alexandre iii shop sketch street walker think true love turn wait young woman
musicBy	Georges Auric
nomination	Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Art Direction, Color Academy Award for Best Costume Design, Color Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Film Editing Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
producer	John and James Woolf
productionCompany	John and James Woolf
publisher	British Lion Films
recordedAt	London Paris
theme	biographical romantic drama