The exquisite name "Moulin Rouge" for over a hundred years sounds like a synonym for refined debauchery and carnival of carnal pleasures - and not only in France, but all over the world. The famous cabaret in the red light district opened doors at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries. It was a turning-point, when the feeling of "Fin de siècle", the end of the century, the approach of change, euphoria and fear from them, pushed people to desperate deeds and forced them to live with all their might, truthfully, forgetting about strict morals, which in fact are lies to oneself Itself.
Then Montmartre, together with its center of attraction - "Moulin Rouge" - became one of the sources of inspiration for many European artists and poets. The whole Parisian bohemia was going to the performances, including Auguste Renoir, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Oscar Wilde, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, surreal poets. Starting from the world of carnal pleasures, they soared to the heights of the spirit - and is it possible without one another?
Here liberty, bordering on shamelessness, reigned liberty, favorable to revolutions. And bohemia created here its small and big revolutions - it created new directions in art and immortal masterpieces. And in 1893, for the first time in history, the dancer was completely undressed on the stage of the Moulin Rouge. In the kaleidoscope of the changing epochs, its bizarre space, full of light, shit and splendor, remains today a place for those who believe in truth, beauty, freedom, love.
"Well, enough to talk about love, it's fiction idlers!" - taught the young hero of the Hollywood "Moulin Rouge" father. And really, stop talking. Love should be engaged!
