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Cannes 2009 Day 8: Tarantino is an Unlucky Basterd

If only Tarantino managed to coat the rest of the film with the same tension, wit and flair as found in his introductory sequence (a Spaghetti Western inspired bit with the Krauts, French diary farmer and void of subtitles), then there likely wouldn’t be an inventory of low points.

Eric Lavallée

Published on May 21, 2009

Opening chapter sets the tone, but everything else is falls flat in QT’s Inglourious Basterds, his first disappointment/least clever
film from the library. If only Tarantino managed to coat the rest of the film with the same tension, wit and flair as found in his introductory sequence (a Spaghetti Western inspired bit with the Krauts, French diary farmer and void of subtitles), then there likely wouldn’t be an inventory of low points: runtime, too cluttered, having too many unimportant characters and a climax that is anti-climatic. Full length review coming soon, here are some pics where they go from to the press conference area: a crazy zoo of photographers made for these less than stellar pics.

Lt. Archie Hicox: Michael Fassbender

Shosanna Dreyfus: Melanie Laurent.

Sgt. Donnie Donowitz: Eli Roth.

Out-of-focus of the director bigger than God. Quentin Tarantino.

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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).