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The Many Lives of the Moulin Rouge
By Taylor Bye //
When I was 14, I was invited to a sleepover birthday party. The birthday girl decided we should watch Moulin Rouge!, the Baz Luhrman movie musical from , starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor.
Settled on the floor in our pajamas, we entered a world of campy decadence—Paris in —set to pop hits from the late s and ’90s.
Still from Moulin Rouge! ().
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Courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox.
I was captivated. The plot has its twists and turns: a young poet (McGregor) falls in with a crowd of bohemian artists—including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec—who find both a star (Kidman) and a venue for their play at the Moulin Rouge.
But the message is simple enough: “The greatest thing you’ll ever learn,” sings Toulouse-Lautrec, “is just to love and be loved in return.”
Fast forward a decade and change, and I now work at Mia, where the real Toulouse-Lautrec’s painting At the Moulin Rouge is on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago through