The ''Red Curtain Trilogy'' is a DVD boxed set, released in 2002, of the first three films directed by
Baz Luhrmann
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Strictly Ballroom'' (1992), starring
Paul Mercurio
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Tara Morice
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Background
Born in Hobart, Tasmania, Morice also lived in Sydney, Alice Springs and Adelaide as a child. She is a fifth-generation Australian and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Latvia ...
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Romeo + Juliet
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'' (1996), starring
Leonardo DiCaprio and
Claire Danes
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Moulin Rouge!
''Moulin Rouge!'' (, ) is a 2001 jukebox musical romantic drama film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Baz Luhrmann. It follows a young English poet, Christian, who falls in love with the star of the Moulin Rouge, cabaret actress and co ...
'' (2001), starring
Nicole Kidman
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and
Ewan McGregor
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The films do not form a
trilogy
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in the traditional sense, as there is no relationship between the plot and characters of the three films. Rather, Luhrmann said that the three films followed a specific style of filmmaking. Each film contains a theatre motif that reappears throughout the film. Dance is used in the first film, poetry and language in the second, and song in the third.
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