The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
A beautiful tragedy about forbidden love between an inoccent young bohemian and a singing and dancing courtesan with a heart of gold. If it had stopped right there, I would have been hooked, but nooooo, they had to go on and add Ewan McGregor and Nicole Kidman as the couple. Still, director Baz Luhrmann felt that wasn't quite enough to thoroughly win my heart so he cast John Leguizamo as (real-life artist) Toulouse-Lautrec and added a wonderful subtheme about artists claiming their place in society. Just when you thought it couldn't be any more of a movie made for me, it is all set to a wonderful musical soundtrack that freely samples popular music including everything from Nirvana to Elton John to Donna Summer. This movie honestly has everything I could ever want in a movie and that is why it is (by far) my favorite romance of the 21st century.
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