Moulin Rouge

The year is 1900. Christian (Ewan McGregor), a British writer who came to Montmartre a year before, sits in a garret overlooking the closed-down Moulin Rouge. He has just begun typing on a new biographical work, detailing his love and loss of Satine (Nicole Kidman), a courtesan who has since died.

The audience enters into Christian's memories. It is 1899, and Christian arrives in Paris as a naive and idealistic writer in pursuit of his place in the Bohemian world. He chooses the neighborhood of Montmartre, Paris, knowing it to be the epicentre of the Bohemian world at the height of the Bohemian...