The return of Tarantino to Cannes with Once upon a time in Hollywood

The return of Tarantino to Cannes with Once upon a time in Hollywood: the place where Pulp Fiction established him as a genius 25 years ago

 

 The return of Tarantino to Cannes with Once upon a time in Hollywood: the place where «Pulp Fiction» established him as a genius 25 years ago

On May 21, 1994, the Knoxville filmmaker premiered at the prestigious event and won the Palme d'Or, although he divided the critics: "I do not expect to receive awards at festivals, because I do not make films to unite people." Cinema Quentin Tarantino has always been immersed in an unquestionable poetic aesthetic. For this reason, it is not surprising that it is precisely today, May 21, 2019, the day in which the famous filmmaker from Knoxville presents his new film, 

"Once upon a time in Hollywood" 

at the Cannes Film Festival: the same place and the same day in which, just 25 years ago, saw the light for the first time «Pulp Fiction». A decision that has nothing of chance and that, like everything related to his films, has much of Tarantino's will. A quarter of a century ago, the director enjoyed the applause of the critics after the success of his debut opera, "Reservoir Dogs", his particular tribute to the cinema, loaded with references and nuances of all the works that had marked his taste for the Seventh Art and their life experiences, in general. The success of the work is still such that, in recent times, has inspired the successful Spanish series «The paper house», which triumphs all over the planet at the hands of Netflix and Atresmedia and that will release its new season next month. .

His great work with 

Reservoir Dogs opened the doors of Cannes wide for Tarantino. Already backed by Harvey and Bob Weinstein (today reviled, but who were then two of the fashion producers), the director of Tennessee was crowned in the French contest and consolidated what he had achieved with his first film. He took the prestigious Golden Palm of the Festival, although he did it with a lot of controversy and division of opinions about "Pulp Fiction", another amalgam of tributes, although totally different from "Reservoir Dogs".

Proof of this was that, when Clint Eastwood, president of the jury, announced his film as the winner of the prize on May 23, the filmmaker had to interrupt his speech twice on account of the boos he received. «Mais quelle daube! Quelle daube! Quelle daube! Putain, fait chier! "(Translated into Spanish as" What the fuck! What the fuck! What the hell! You gotta fuck! "A lady in French shouted, hoping that the prize was for Nikita Mijalkov with the applauded drama Russian «Burned by the sun». But Tarantino, who took the stage in the company of his then partner, Roger Avary, and four of the protagonists of the film, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Maria de Medeiros and Samuel L. Jackson, responded in their own way. "I do not expect to receive awards at festivals, because I do not film to unite people. My films divide, "he said, after taking out the middle finger of the woman who had shouted against his film.
An incomparable style

A declaration of intentions that makes perfect use of what Tarantino's cinema has been in the five decades since then. "Jackie Brown," the two parts of "Kill Bill," "Death Proof," "Cursed Bastards," "Django Unchained," and "The Odious Eight" have given continuity to a style, that of the Knoxville director

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which remains insurmountable and that ended of being settled that day of 1994 in Cannes. "The structure of the film, the banal but daily dialogues, the uncompleted violence and the lacerating sense of humor made its director an instant reference, one of those filmmakers in which aspiring young directors wanted to become, as few decades before had happened with Martin Scorsese or Steven Spielberg », defines Jordi Picatoste in his work« The Tarantino effect, his cinema and pop culture ».

Cannes, that's the way things were, was the scenario on which Tarantino settled as one of Hollywood's greatest geniuses. Since then, he has not perverted and has never stopped reinventing himself. «Tarantino treasures a lot of skills. He is a magnificent narrator, he looks for a cinema that entertains him and others, he has freshness, impudence and even a reprehensible lack of modesty in dealing with issues as cinematographic as violence, sex or honesty. Even when he copies, he does it with a personal stamp and usually improves the person he imitates, "says Oti R. Marchante, a film critic at the head of ABC and who today enjoys the screening of the work at Cannes.

 "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" 

However, the decision thatpremieres precisely this Tuesday at the festival is due to more than obvious reasons. The same ones that explain that, just today, it is when the second trailer of the tape has seen the light. Or that the film will be starred by regulars in his films, such as Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tim Roth, Zoe Bell, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen, Omar Doom and Bruce Dern. Because in Tarantino's cinema, nothing happens by chance. "To what

An incomparable style 

A declaration of intentions that makes perfect use of what Tarantino's cinema has been in the five decades since then. "Jackie Brown," the two parts of "Kill Bill," "Death Proof," "Cursed Bastards," "Django Unchained," and "The Odious Eight" have given continuity to a style, that of the Knoxville director, which remains insurmountable and that ended of being settled that day of 1994 in Cannes. "The structure of the film, the banal but daily dialogues, the uncompleted violence and the lacerating sense of humor made its director an instant reference, one of those filmmakers in which aspiring young directors wanted to become, as few decades before had happened with Martin Scorsese or Steven Spielberg », defines Jordi Picatoste in his work« The Tarantino effect, his cinema and pop culture ».

Cannes, that's the way things were, was the scenario on which Tarantino settled as one of Hollywood's greatest geniuses. Since then, he has not perverted and has never stopped reinventing himself. «Tarantino treasures a lot of skills. He is a magnificent narrator, he looks for a cinema that entertains him and others, he has freshness, impudence and even a reprehensible lack of modesty in dealing with issues as cinematographic as violence, sex or honesty. Even when he copies, he does it with a personal stamp and usually improves the person he imitates, "says Oti R. Marchante, a film critic at the head of ABC and who today enjoys the screening of the work at Cannes.

However, the decision that "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" premieres precisely this Tuesday at the festival is due to more than obvious reasons. The same ones that explain that, just today, it is when the second trailer of the tape has seen the light. Or that the film will be starred by regulars in his films, such as Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, Tim Roth, Zoe Bell, Kurt Russell, Michael Madsen, Omar Doom and Bruce Dern. Because in Tarantino's cinema, nothing happens by chance. «Quentin (Tarantino) likes to shoot with all kinds of details. Build step by step and then, unite everything in your mind. But of course, then you see the films that end up coming out and the final result is very surprising, unexpected, "said Kurt Russell himself when talking about the long-awaited feature film. A perfect definition of an unrepeatable style that never leaves us indifferent and that continues to devastate the entire planet.