Moulin Rouge

Set in late nineteenth-century Paris, this drama follows the painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, a member of an aristocratic French family who moves to the city to devote himself to art. He becomes a regular at the Moulin Rouge and other Montmartre cabarets, where he finds a sense of belonging among performers and outsiders. A childhood accident left him disabled and his legs stunted, and he believes no woman will ever love him. His life changes when he meets two women, and he also paints a series of posters for the Moulin Rouge.

John Huston directed, produced and co-wrote the screenplay with Anthony Veiller. It was the sixth of the twenty-two films he directed, coming after The African Queen and before Beat the Devil. José Ferrer plays Toulouse-Lautrec, with Zsa Zsa Gabor as Jane Avril, Colette Marchand as Marie Charlet, Suzanne Flon as Myriamme Hayam, Claude Nollier as the Countess de Toulouse-Lautrec and Katherine Kath as Louise Weber, among a credited cast of 25. Made in the United Kingdom by Romulus Films and released through United Artists on a budget of about two million dollars, the film runs 119 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 7 out of 10 from around 7,200 votes, and on TMDB 6.6 out of 10 from 117 votes, while a critics' rating stands at 6.4 out of 10 from 11 reviews.