It usually takes a short time to metabolize a film, but I have to admit that this time I had a hard and slow digestion. I was expecting something else, I imagined myself attending the usual Tarantino-esque with a lot of violence and surreal dialogues, but none, or at least almost.
Two and a half hours on which nothing to say about how it was made regarding to the purely "aesthetic" side, really well done until the smallest detail, clearly nostalgic and entirely dedicated to late 1960s cinema with lots of references to the old Hollywood and some of his legendary actors, that of westerns and spaghetti westerns, to the films of Roman Polanski and the crimes of Charles Manson and his followers. You may be wondering what Manson has to do with it, well, Quentin will surprise you with his historical reconstruction, which will be done in his unmistakable Tarantine style.
The plot, as often happens in his works, is very simple and direct, even if it is slightly more complex than usual: speaks about the life of a B-series film actor, "Rick Dalton", played by Leonardo DiCaprio, and his faithful friend stuntman "Cliff Booth", Brad Pitt, a deadly couple who literally leaps off the screen.
Rick goes for the fifties and now has the label of the bad guy on every everywhere is called to act in, an evergreen Al Pacino, in the role of film producer Marvin Schwartz, advises him to get away and move to Italy to devote himself to Spaghetti Western and try to revive his image, a genre of films that at the time were not really well seen overseas, this sentence psychologically destroys the actor who categorically refuses the possibility of leaving the States and will accuse some difficulties on the set of his new film, then subsequently step back and travel to Italy for a new adventure.
All this happens while Cliff seems to fall in love with a young girl who will take him to a Hippie community that will prove to be Charles Manson followers.
Many actors involved, as usual a stellar cast, to add to the three already mentioned there will be Emile Hirsch, Margot Robbie, Margaret Qualley, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Luke Perry, Damian Lewis and Kurt Russell.
This homage to the cinema seems to be lost in itself, the scenes are well performed and well executed but sometimes there is the impression that they are not able to tie together, the director seems to love himself and the cinema of which he is madly in love, aiming with this new script to change his visions to make a further quality leap in his artistic career, as for Rick, destined to be the bad guy, the same goes for Tarantino, his brand has long been consolidated and it is difficult to be appreciated with anything else after 30 years of career, I wonder at that initial speech of the film would not be a self-reference.
The film is beautiful, maybe a bit boring at the beginning compared to its predecessors, here Brad and Leo manage to keep the dead times active but without a lot of Verve dose that surely wouldn't hurt, only in the final its aggressive style will be back, clearly seen and and that's enough to earn points lost during some other scenes.
Probably in a few years, we will see his tenth and final career work, as he has stated on more than one occasion, television series or scriptwriting could be part of his near future, despite not have been able to appreciate a lot his last job I am really curious to see how his genius will evolve during next years.
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