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Baz Luhrmann, dir., Moulin Rouge! (20th Century Fox, 2001)

M. Cyrino, "To Love and Toulouse: the Orpheus and Eurydice Theme in Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus (1959) and Baz Luhrmann's Moulin Rouge (2001)," Classical and Modern Literature — On "the look back" especially. "As Christian marches away down the aisle of the theater, his back stubbornly turned to her, Satine rises and begins to sing to him in a faint voice their duet of doomed passion, 'Come What May.' In the end, his love for her is too strong, so Chistian turns around to see her as Satine falters, breathless; he rushes to hold her up, and they are reunited in a singing embrace onstage. But, as the curtain falls, Satine collapses in his arms, coughs up blood on her white dress, and as she dies, she tells him 'Tell our story, Christian ... That way, I'll always be with you.'"

acknowledgment: Luhrmann's 2001 interviews in EW.com, another in The Guardian Luhrmann admits and discusses Orpheus theme.

other bibliography:
E. Hudson (2011), "Moulin Rouge! and the boundaries of opera," The Opera Quarterly 27:256-82 — notes at 2.0041_LuhrmannHudson