MOULIN ROUGE!: DIETRO ALLO SFRENATO MONDO DI PIACERE ED APPARENZA DEL 'MOULIN ROUGE' SI CONSUMA LA TRAGEDIA DI UN AMORE SPLENDIDO, INTENSO ED IMPOSSIBILE, IN UN UNIVERSO SENZA LEGGI SCRITTE IN CUI L'UNICA PARADOSSALE REGOLA E' 'NON INNAMORARSI'
I ‘RECUPERATI’ di ‘CelluloidPortraits’ - Omaggio a NICOLE KIDMAN
(Moulin Rouge AUSTRALIA 2001; Musical drammatico; 130'; Produz.: Bazmark; Distribuz.: 20th Century Fox)
Vincitore di 2 premi Oscar 2002: 'Migliori Scenografie' e 'Migliori costumi'; 3 Golden Globe 2002: 'Miglior Film (Musical/Commedia)', 'Miglior Colonna Sonora' e 'Miglior Attrice' (musical/commedia)' (Nicole Kidman) ; BAFTA al 'Miglior Attore Non Protagonista' a Jim Broadbent; BAFTA alla 'Migliore Colonna Sonora' a Craig Armstrong e Marius De Vries; 2 MTV Movie Awards 2002: 'Miglior Performance Femminile', 'Miglior Sequenza Musicale'; National Board of Review Awards 2001: 'Miglior Film'.
Se a detta di Toulouse la cosa più bella al mondo “è amare e lasciarsi amareâ€, fin dal principio la storia è destinata a non regalare allo spettatore un lieto fine.
La scelta di Baz Luhrman è delle più tragiche e ardue insieme, quella di mettere lo spettatore nella condizione di sapere il finale prima dello svolgersi della vicenda che diventa flusso di coscienza del ricordo terribile e vibrante della vita di Christian e Satine, mentre la macchina da scrivere compone un libro in versi e musica nella stanzetta triste di Montmartre da cui la vista del mulino è ormai solo la nebbia di un incubo che si vuole dissipare.
E allora Lurhman ci introduce nelle stanze rosse e chiassose dove sventolano e si alzano le balze di una moltitudine di gonne colorate e la musica impazza, stordisce, sulle note di un can can moderno e sfrenato, sguaiato a tratti
in cui la gente che affolla la sala si getta in un turbine indiavolato.
Il motto di Ziedler, il padrone dello spettacolo, è molto chiaro “we can-can-canâ€, amaro gioco di parole che mostra questa superficie affollata di persone immerse nel divertimento, alla ricerca dello spettacolo puro, senza limite tra poter fare e dovere.
La perla del Moulin Rouge arriva dall’alto però, come un angelo, Satine, un nome elegante per il diamante splendente, vera attrazione dello spettacolo, la donna che tutti attendono.
Tra un romantico intermezzo e una simpatica piece, avviene l’incontro fra la stella ed il poeta e Satine e Christian si incontrano e per la prima volta incrociano gli sguardi per guardarsi dentro.
È l’Elephant Love Medley a guidare spettatore ed animi dei protagonisti con una sapiente scelta di brani e dialoghi, tanto da diventare fortunato main theme indimenticato ed anima della storia stessa, mentre le scene scorrono e con esse i
Behind the world of unbridled pleasure and appearance of the Moulin Rouge, is taking the tragedy of a very deep love, intense as impossible in a world without written laws in which the only rule is a paradox: never fall in love.
If according to Toulouse, the most beautiful thing in the world "is to love and be loved in return", from the beginning the story is not intended to give the spectator a happy ending.
The choice of Baz Luhrman is the most tragic and difficult, to put the audience in the position to know the final before the end of the story that became stream of consciousness of that terribly deep and
passionate memory in Christian and Satine lives, while the writingmachine writes a book composed in verse and music in the sad room of Montmartre and trough the window only the mill, now nothing more than the fog of a nightmare that you want to dispel.
So Lurhman put us into the red and noisy room where people is driven crazy about music and that multitude of colorful skirts is stunning on the notes of a modern and boundless can can where people who crowd the room plunges into a whirlwind set off.
The motto of Ziedler, the boss of the show, it is very clear "we can-can-can," bitter play on words that shows this area crowded with people immersed in fun, in search of pure entertainment, without limit because everything is possible and they “can†do it all.
And it’s in that crowd of music and colours that Moulin
Rouges’ Sparkling diamond, Satine, makes her appearence.
Between a romantic interlude and a nice piece, is the meeting between the star and the poet, and Satin and Christian meet eachother for the first time.
It is the Elephant Love Medley to lead the audience and minds of the actors with a wise choice of songs and dialogues, becoming lucky unforgettable main theme and soul of the story itself, and the scenes flow and with them the fate inextricably intertwoven lives of Satin and Christian.
And it is not only love, because audience already knows what awaits the two protagonists, so that the words "we colud be heroes just for one day" are playing a real dramatic load of meanings, letting go down the first tears, and shake the heart.
The style of the director is so visible in every fragment, because every frame is full of emotion, a room where
the music emphasizes the feelings; sweetness, anger, fury, instinct, betrayal, laugh, in a climax that goes on until it gets at a maximum of pathos of extraordinary intensity on the notes of a tragic "Show must go on."
The aim of the film is driven by these words, perfectly interwoven as never before with pictures; all is pure heart vibration for the perfect choice of music that blends into the drama of two souls who have made their love experience but which are not meant to live, because behind the curtain of unbridled pleasure and appearance of the Moulin Rouge is taking the tragedy of a very deep love, intense as impossible in a world without written laws in which the only rule is a paradox: never fall in love.
Metaphor of a world in which the crowd of an audience is waiting insistently and beat his hands,
applauding the show, waiting for the actors on stage, Moulin Rouge puts the spectator in front of a true reality that is taking behind the curtains, an intense drama in the best way of Pirandello and Moravia,where everyone has to wear the mask, because the tragedy that no, it is not made to be shown.
But the crowd continue to applaud, careless and unaware of what is the other side, because this doesn’t matter, the show must go on.