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Moulin Rouge A famous courtesan, a narcoleptic Argentinean, a bohemian midget, and a young man in search of love…welcome to your grandmother’s musical, steeped in absinthe and cut to satisfy the MTV generation. Baz Luhrman’s third and final entry to his Red Curtain series is Moulin Rouge. It is a vision of compelling musical choices, lightning fast edits and supersaturated colors, with a pair of stars whose chemistry will make the most jaded of us believe in love again. The movie takes us to the Mont Martre section of Paris, where the young writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) has gone to find love and the bohemian way of life at the Moulin Rouge, the infamous Parisian nightclub of can-can fame. Before you can say, big red windmill, he has met up with Toulouse-Lautrec, who introduces him to Satine (Nicole Kidman), a famous courtesan whose only desire is to become “a real actress”. Zidler (Jim Broa