In Association with Ashton Keynes Music & Arts Festival 2017, an opening film with a European theme.

Tuesday 27^th June 2017 – Moulin Rouge! (2001)

Starring Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor

BBFC: 12A

The year is 1899, and Christian (Ewan McGregor), a young English writer, has come to Paris to follow the Bohemian revolution taking hold of the city's drug and prostitute infested underworld. Nowhere is the thrill of the underworld more alive than at the Moulin Rouge, a night club where the rich and poor men alike come to be entertained by the dancers, but things take a wicked turn for Christian as he starts a deadly love affair with the star courtesan of the club, Satine (Nicole Kidman). However, the club’s patron (the Duke) also covets her affections. A dangerous love triangle ensues as Satine and Christian attempt to fight all odds to stay together but a force that not even love can conquer is taking its toll on Satine.