Christian, a young writer with a magical gift for poetry,
defies his bourgeois father by moving to the bohemian
underworld of Montmartre, Paris. He is taken in by the
absinthe- soaked artist Toulouse- Lautrec, whose party-
hard life centers aound the Moulin Rouge, a world of sex,
drugs, electricity and the shocking Can-Can. Christian
falls into a passionate but ultimately doomed love affair
with Satine, the Sparkling Diamond, the most beautiful
courtesan in Paris and star of the Moulin Rouge. |