For a film about one of the biggest names in french post impressionism, it sure is romantic.
I was looking forward to watching this one, seeing that its about Toulouse Lautrec, a painter which i very much respect, but was really disappointed to find out that the film does very little justice to him as a historical figure. While my knowledge of his life is very limited it is still enough to point out some major character changes in the film's portrayal. For an example, it makes me wonder why was Toulouse Lautrec, the painter that got famous painting brothels and prostitutes painted like a prude eunuch who died of heart break? It is a wide know fact that he actually died of siffilis, most likely because he very frequently had sex with prostitutes. But no, in the film we see this poor soul ( the film makes sure that not a minute passes without the viewer feeling sorry for him) getting mislead and mistreated by women, which brings me to my second biggest complain, i just hate how some films like portraying women like these evil entities while men are ethical preys to their schemes. He might have been alcoholic and he might have been broken hearted and mistreated in any number of ways due to his height and deficiency, but i refuse to accept that these are the things worth pointing out in a 2 hour long film. We see almost nothing of him being a painter and dealing with other painters, all we get is this melodramatic sexist soap opera that happens to have Toulouse as a character. That being said, the film was well shot and the one scene where we see him producing the posters for moulin rouge was very nice.
Review of Moulin Rouge
