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Moulin Rouge! (2001)
Torture!
This unbearable movie is torture to sit through. Witless, arch and heavy-handed, it is essentially a wan imitation of a Ken Russell movie. Nicole Kidman has all the charm of a dead codfish, but John Leguizamo is shockingly bad -- his performance is a textbook for bad comic timing. And Baz Luhrmann shows a dreary lack of imagination in the obvious, uninspired songs he uses. The absolute pits.
Fin août, début septembre (1998)
Wonderful Film
A beautiful and moving film filled with understated yet extremely rich, quietly complex character studies. The people in this film are so real, they don't seem like fictional characters at all and the movie has the natural rhythm of real life. The interaction and inter-connections are rare in movies. Often very funny, Late August, Early September is also quite heartbreaking. One of the best films in years.