Moulin Rouge! musical nominated for Best Picture in 10 years, following Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" (1991). In BBC's 2016 poll of the greatest films since 2000, "Moulin Rouge!" ranked 53rd. In the year 1900, a British writer named Christian (Ewan McGregor), suffering from depression, begins writing on his typewriter ("Nature Boy"). As Christian narrates, the film flashes back to one year earlier upon Christian's move to the Montmartre district of Paris to become a writer among members of the area's Bohemian movement. He soon discovers that his neighbours are a loose troupe of performers led by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (John Leguizamo).
Ode to Boy and manic production accompany Alison's vocals and easily becomes the icing on the cake on "Essex"." "Penny Black Music" writer Adrian Janes commented that "Ode to Boy" "eagerly delights in the female gaze: "When he drives I love to watch his hands/white and smooth/almost feminine/almost American"." Ode to Boy "Ode to Boy" is a song by British synthpop duo Yazoo, featured on their second and final studio album "You and Me Both", which was released in 1983. In 1994, Alison Moyet recorded her own version of the song for her fourth studio album "Essex". "Ode to Boy" was originally recorded