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This is the latest instalment in our From the Vault feature series, in which we reflect on culturally significant movies celebrating notable anniversaries.<\/em><\/p>\n

Baz Luhrmann\u2019s Moulin Rouge<\/em> turns 25 this month and remains as divisive as when it first came out.<\/p>\n

The film is so gleefully over the top that you wonder why the title\u2019s official stylisation \u2013 Moulin Rouge!<\/em> \u2013 is limited to just one exclamation mark.<\/p>\n

Blending Bollywood, Broadway, old Hollywood and MTV stylings, the final part of the Australian director\u2019s Red Curtain Trilogy \u2013 following Strictly Ballroom<\/em> (1992) and Romeo + Juliet<\/em> (1996) \u2013 is a postmodern love letter to cut-and-paste cinematic camp.<\/p>\n

Whether you love it, hate it or find yourself veering deliriously between the two, it is an experience you are unlikely to forget. Luhrmann and his long-term co-writer Craig Pearce, you sense, would not have it any other way.<\/p>\n

Set in Montmartre, Paris \u2013 also the backdrop for Am\u00e9lie<\/em> (2001) \u2013 in 1900, it tells of the doomed romance that blossoms between penniless writer Christian (Ewan McGregor) and Moulin Rouge dancer\/courtesan Satine (Nicole Kidman).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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