Accepted into the main selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in competition for the prestigious Palme d’Or and it had its world premiere there in May, It was the only U.S. film to win an award at Cannes that year, earning a Best Actor award for Christoph Waltz.

Released worldwide on August 21, ‘Inglourious Basterds’ has become Tarantino’s highest grossing film, both in the United States and worldwide. In the first year of the German occupation of France, Shosanna Dreyfus (Melanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema.

Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish American soldiers to perform swift, shocking acts of retribution. Later known to their enemy as “the basterds,” Raine’s squad joins German actress and undercover agent Bridget von Hammersmark (Diane Kruger) on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich. Fates converge under a cinema marquis, where Shosanna is poised to carry out a revenge plan of her own....

Employing pulp and propaganda in equal measure, Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds weaves together the infamous, oppressed, real and larger-than-life stories of World War II.

Speaking about the film the ‘Kill Bill’ famed director Tarantino has said that despite it being a war film, Inglourious Basterds is a “spaghetti western but with World War II iconography”.

Produced by Lawrence Bender, the film stars Brad Pitt, Melanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Til Schweiger, Daniel Bruhl, Diane Kruger, Michael Fassbender, Mike Myers and B.J. Novak.

Tarantino announced his arrival on the film scene with a spectacular flourish – his dynamic debut, Reservoir Dogs, was initially screened at the Sundance Film Festival in 1992 and went on to win critical, and public, acclaim all over the world.

Two years later he won the coveted Palme D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival with Pulp Fiction, which also earned him the Best Screenplay Oscar, along with co-writer Roger Avary. His other director’s credits include Jackie Brown, Kill Bill: Vol. 1 and Kill Bill: Vol. 2 and the Death Proof section of Grindhouse.

Courtesy: SundayTimes

Posted on Sunday, November 22, 2009 @ 12:38:14 LKT by SaNDun

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