Selling It: The Moulin Rouge Drunken Commentary Track

4 Aug 2007

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Moulin Rouge

Chwistian! Ewan McGregor Works It in 'Moulin Rouge' I’ll keep this brief: If you’ve seen it, chances are excellent that you either love or loathe Moulin Rouge. But have you ever spent the time to really figure out why?

In this Drunken Commentary Track, Culture Snob and River Cities’ Reader film critic Mike Schulz argue about Baz Luhrmann’s paean to love.

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