Inglourious Basterds
Quentin Tarantino, known for his tributes to film noir (Reservoir Dogs), Blaxploitation (Jackie Brown), Shaw Brothers kung-fu movies (Kill Bill vol.1 & 2) and slasher movies (Death Proof), has now returned with his own version of the war movie: Inglourious Basterds.
This film was accepted into the main selection at this year 62nd Cannes Film Festival in competition for the prestigious Palme d’Or and had its world premiere there in May. It was the only U.S. film to win an award at Cannes this year, earning a Best Actor award for Christoph Waltz. “Each chapter in the movie has a vaguely different look, and a different feel, and the tone is different in all of them. The opening feels like a spaghetti western, but with World War II iconography,” explains Tarantino.
Synosips: During World War II a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by take down as many Nazis as they can get. They ambush and kill Nazi patrols, desecrating their corpses whilst leaving one alive to tell others. The Basterds soon cross paths with a young French-Jewish woman, who seeks to avenge the death of her family at the hands of Nazis, and particularly, the sinister SS colonel know as “The Jew Hunter”.
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