:04:01
was the woman I loved.
:04:04
Satine.
:04:06
A courtesan,
:04:08
she sold her love to men.
:04:11
They called her
"the sparkling diamond,"
:04:15
and she was the star...
:04:18
of the Moulin Rouge.
:04:23
[ Crowd Cheering ]
:04:31
[ Quiet Sobbing ]
:04:35
The woman I loved...
:04:38
is...
:04:43
dead.
:04:48
- [ Typing Resumes ]
- I first came to Paris...
:04:51
one year ago.
:04:58
It was 1 899,
the summer of love.
:05:02
I knew nothing of the Moulin Rouge,
Harold Zidler...
:05:05
or Satine.
:05:07
The world had been swept up
in bohemian revolution,
:05:11
and I had traveled from London
to be a part of it.
:05:14
On the hill near Paris
was the village of Montmartre.
:05:18
- It was not, as my father had said--
- A village of sin!
:05:22
But the center
of the bohemian world.
:05:25
- Of the revolution
- Musicians, painters, writers.
:05:28
They were known as
"the children of the revolution."
:05:39
and that which I believed in
above all things -- love.
:05:42
Always this ridiculous
obsession with love!
:05:47
There was only one problem--
I'd never been in love.
:05:51
- [ Typewriter Bell Dings ]
- Luckily, right at that moment,
:05:53
an unconscious Argentinean
fell through my roof.
:05:56
[ Man Shouts ]
:05:58
He was quickly joined
by a dwarf dressed as a nun.