Cannes 2009: INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS
Brad Pitt in Inglourious Basterds
Richard Corliss/Mary Corliss in Time:
"… Inglourious Basterds — first word as in "glower," second as in "turds" — is an alternative history of World War II from the writer-director of Pulp Fiction, the Palme d’Or winner 15 years ago. As with all of his recent work — the two Kill Bill movies and Death Proof — Basterds draws portraits of strong women facing down evil men; and in Shoshanna (Mélanie Laurent) and Third Reich screen star Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) he’s created two of his fullest female portraits. But Basterds is long and, for the hypercharged auteur, surprisingly wan. It has to be declared a misfire."
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J. Hoberman in The Village Voice:
"So what is [...]
by Massimo David | May 20, 2009
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Tags: Brad Pitt, Cannes 2009, Cannes Film Festival, David Bowie, Diane Kruger, Ennio Morricone, Film Festivals, Geoffrey Macnab, Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill, Mélanie Laurent, Nazis, Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino, Rod Taylor, The Independent, Total Film, Uma Thurman, Winston Churchill, World War II
