Jul 27 2010
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Many of those who have seen the film directed by Baz Luhrmann and starring Nicole Kidman (2001) may not know about this film which appeared about 50 years earlier. Based on Pierre LaMure’s biographical recent and directed by John Huston, this Moulin Rouge focuses entirely on the life of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Two years previously, Jose Ferrer received an Academy Award for leading actor in Cyrano de Bergerac. He was nominated again in 1952 for his portrayal of Toulouse Lautrec (he also plays the painter’s father, Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec, a exiguous but indispensable role in this film), losing to Gary Cooper (High Noon) .
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How spellbinding that each of Ferrer’s two greatest performances on-screen is of a French aristocrat with a famous physical deformity who encounters only failure and despair in his esteem life. In any event, Ferrer is luminous in a cast of consistently high quality. As chanteuse Jane Avril, Zsa Zsa Gabor essentially plays herself: gorgeous, vain, melodramatic, self-absorbed, good-hearted, and charming. Also grand are Colette Marshand (as Marie Charlet), Suzanne Flon (Myrianne Haven), Katherine Kath (La Goulue), and Christopher Lee (Georges Seurat) . Although nominated for several Academy Awards, this film received only two (for Color Art Direction and Color Costume Execute), both richly deserved. Huston skillfully directs an qualified cast while blending seamlessly Oswald Morris’ cinematography with George Auric’s musical salvage.
Born in 1864, Toulouse-Lautrec spent his childhood years on family estates approach Albi, with Paris becoming his home in 1872. The victim of a genetic bone condition that made him vulnerable to fractures, he walked with a cane by age thirteen and grew to be only four feet eleven inches big. One example of Huston’s genius is the fact that noteworthy of the film is shot from Toulouse-Lautrec’s perspective. That is, we study the aristocrat-artist’s world almost literally through his eyes as he sits and sketches in the music hall, then drags himself to his stunted feet and slowly, painfully resumes his late-night debauchery.
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In ancient health throughout his adult years, Toulouse-Lautrec exacerbated his site with alcoholism which no doubt hastened his death in 1901. Lying in bed and reach death, he learns from his astonished father that his paintings will be on exhibition at the Louvre. (”The Louvre, Henri, the Louvre! I did not know, Henri, I did not understand….”) This final scene reminds me of the final scene in Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), starring Robert Donat. Both Toulouse-Lautrec and Charles Chipping are approach death, barely conscious. Both imagine being visited by those they once knew, bidding them a fond farewell. For Toulouse-Lautrec, the performers from the Moulin Rouge; for Chipping, many of the boys he taught over a period of several decades at Brookfield School.
This film is a feast for the eyes. At least for about two hours, it enables us to return to Paris arrive the ruin of the 19th century, to a world which remains colorful in the mammoth art of Seaurat, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Manet, Bonnard….and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
This is one of the most intriguing biographies I’ve ever seen on film.
Until I acquired the DVD, I never fully realized how glorious this film looked, either. I was terrified to seek how spectacular the colors were and how distinguished it helped assume the flavor of the dance hall and the cobblestone streets of France 100 years ago…..and, of course, Tolouse-Lautrec’s mammoth artwork. This movie is a feast for the eyes.
The DVD also offers an opportunity to do something I suggest other fans of this movie try: employ the English subtitles. This draw, you don’t have to strain to understand the French accents, notably Colette Marchand’s, and it makes this tantalizing epic even better.
Story-wise, it’s a bit of a soap opera but one I composed found tantalizing, thanks mainly to Lautrec’s dialog. He had some really tantalizing things to say, mostly in a cynical scheme. That cynicism, unfortunately, caught up with him in the raze. Jose Ferrer captured this tortured soul about as well as any actor could put a question to to do. I’m sorry he didn’t bag an Academy Award for this performance.
Viewers who only saw the more new “Moulin Rouge!” missed the sincere narrative. That movie was a farce; this is the loyal thing.
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