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2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Published on May 22, 2019

Film geek personified, Quentin Tarantino’s sixth trip to Cannes and his fourth competition film (comes a decade after showing with Inglourious Basterds). He won the Palme d’Or for Pulp Fiction in 1995 and here it explores a Los Angeles and film history with a skewed lens. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is his ninth feature.

Landing in Cannes with guns blazing, this Matryoshka doll/revenge is a dish served flaming-thrower hot in revisionist and fun faux film history made several of our critics gleeful. It enters the grid currently sitting in third place.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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2019 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood