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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)
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Director:
Quentin
Tarantino |
COUNTRY
USA/UK |
GENRE
Drama/Action/Historical/Comedy |
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood |
RUNNING
TIME
161 minutes |
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Producer:
David Heyman
Shannon McIntosh
Quentin Tarantino |
Screenwriter:
Quentin Tarantino |
Review
Quentin Tarantino's revenge-spree on historical wrongdoers
continues, but his latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
isn't a banal revenge-movie; it's a tour-de-force in zeitgeist
celebration and imaginative counterfactual (his)storytelling.
Tarantino takes us back to late 1960s Hollywood in a more
comprehensive and visually captivating way than has ever been done
before in film, and he populates his story with recognizable but
fresh Tarantinoesque characters: an about-to-be washed-out B-movie
star (Leonardo DiCaprio), his no-nonsense stunt-double and buddy
(Brad Pitt), and a record-breaking cast of real and made-up
supporting characters whom Tarantino lets float in and out of focus
in Altmanesque fashion. The diversity of them is one of the keys to
why Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is such an exhaustive
motion picture, one that attacks all your senses and facilities at
once. The film has a lot to say about both current, past and
timeless affairs, but it doesn't express itself as bombastically as
some of Tarantino's more recent movies (The
Hateful Eight,
Inglourious Basterds), rather it adopts a more
essayistic tone, mulling over its themes and innuendos with a sexy,
seductive assuredness. This is Tarantino's most compelling piece
since Pulp Fiction.
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