Baz Luhrmann Double Feature: Romeo + Juliet & Moulin Rouge
6:30pm - Thursday, Feb 9, 2023
Join us at the Rio Theatre on Thursday, February 9, for a Valentine's Day-ish double feature inspired by one of our favourite filmmakers, Baz Luhrmann. We're getting in the mood for love with a romantical pairing of fan-faves including ROMEO + JULIET and MOULIN ROUGE.
See one, or see 'em bot for one sweet price!
Thursday, February 9
ROMEO + JULIET
Doors 6:00 pm | Movie 6:30 pm *Start time subject to change. Please arrive on time.
MOULIN ROUGE
9:00 pm *Apx start time. Please arrive on time.
ROMEO + JULIET (Baz Luhrmann, 1996 / 120 mins / PG) A hyper-kinetic take on the classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy for the screen, updating the setting to a post-modern city named Verona Beach. In this version, the Capulets and the Montagues are two rival gangs. Young Juliet Capulet is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents when she meets and falls in love with the son of her family's nemesis, Romeo Montague, when he crashes her family's masked ball.
MOULIN ROUGE! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001 / 127 mins / PG) A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club's most notorious and beautiful star.
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