directed by: Baz Luhrmann
written and directed by: Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce
starring: Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, Jim Broadbent
comment: 6th January, 2013 + 24th January, 2018
My heart. ♥ As a dark goth teenager I despised this musical because it was about love, whereas now, as an intelectually rampant twenty-something I love it because it's about love! And besides that I become more and more obsessed with postmodern compositions of all the things into one frenzied carnival. (2013)
But it's also interesting to see that such reckless linking must be done with a bit of reck, and Baz Luhrmann himself is the proof of that given it's become his private trade mark of sorts. Out of the three films of his that are comparable in terms of this "post-subgenre", in my opinion Romeo + Juliet functions a bit, The Great Gatsby doesn't work at all and only Moulin Rouge! is made perfectly. The line between this and that is very thin and most likely also invisible. I really don't envy any director that has to pray during production to not cross it. (2018)
