This Quentin Tarantino-film has many admirers or fans but I'm not one of them and neither is Aurore.
This is the story about a group of Jewish-American soldiers ('The Basterds') and their work during WWII, consisting of killing and scalping nazi-soldiers. The idea might be unusual but it needs more than an unusual idea to make an interesting piece of art.
The film is - in spite of the theme and in spite of the fact that Tarantino is known to make films with quite a great amount of violence in it - not at all as violent and 'bloody' as one might imagine.
This is of course not the reason why I didn't appreciate the film.
We follow the work of this group and how they use a German actress to come close to the ones they want to kill, not least the highest ranks among the nazis, that is to say Hitler, Göring, Goebbels etc.
Not following the historical development, they actually succeed in killing the above nomenklatura (I know this word is used about the ruling class/classes or castes in Russia or the former Sovjet Union but I use it in a tranferred sense) and many more and this is of course an appealing change.
On the way they loose many of their friends but in the end the main hero - lt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) - survives - of course!
There are some amusing moments as when they all visit a cinema where they plan to kill the leaders of Germany.
Aldo Raine and his associates are brought there thanks to the German actress who not only speaks her native language but also French, English and Italian, fluently. Raine and his men try to pretend they are Italian friends of her, working for the Italian film industry.
Raine claims himself being the most competent in language and is therefore heading the group in talks with one of the principle characters in the film, colonel Hans Landa - Christoph Waltz.
When opening his mouth, we hear that Raine speaks Italian with a strong American accent but colonel Landa, on the other hand, speaks Italian like an Italian! They are exposed.
The camera work was sometimes very interesting, finding unusual angles to play with, making some parts of the film visually appealing.
The acting was'nt bad but sometimes it felt as if some actors worked on a routine basis.
Brad Pitt made his Raine into a very uncultivated American 'hooligan' but the best acting bestowed us by Christoph Waltz.
His nazi officer, rude and cultivated at the same time, being a polyglot, was extremely well portrayed.
On the same time there were to many clichées to make this film unique and sometimes I felt like the purpose must have been to make a burlesk slap-stick movie and I'm not sure that this was Tarantinos intention - or maybe I'm wrong?
Most of his films are of course made with a glimpse in the eye and deliberately ironic but was that the intention in this oeuvre, one might ask?
Tarantino hasn't made a really interesting film since Jackie Brown.
This is the story about a group of Jewish-American soldiers ('The Basterds') and their work during WWII, consisting of killing and scalping nazi-soldiers. The idea might be unusual but it needs more than an unusual idea to make an interesting piece of art.
The film is - in spite of the theme and in spite of the fact that Tarantino is known to make films with quite a great amount of violence in it - not at all as violent and 'bloody' as one might imagine.
This is of course not the reason why I didn't appreciate the film.
We follow the work of this group and how they use a German actress to come close to the ones they want to kill, not least the highest ranks among the nazis, that is to say Hitler, Göring, Goebbels etc.
Not following the historical development, they actually succeed in killing the above nomenklatura (I know this word is used about the ruling class/classes or castes in Russia or the former Sovjet Union but I use it in a tranferred sense) and many more and this is of course an appealing change.
On the way they loose many of their friends but in the end the main hero - lt Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) - survives - of course!
There are some amusing moments as when they all visit a cinema where they plan to kill the leaders of Germany.
Aldo Raine and his associates are brought there thanks to the German actress who not only speaks her native language but also French, English and Italian, fluently. Raine and his men try to pretend they are Italian friends of her, working for the Italian film industry.
Raine claims himself being the most competent in language and is therefore heading the group in talks with one of the principle characters in the film, colonel Hans Landa - Christoph Waltz.
When opening his mouth, we hear that Raine speaks Italian with a strong American accent but colonel Landa, on the other hand, speaks Italian like an Italian! They are exposed.
The camera work was sometimes very interesting, finding unusual angles to play with, making some parts of the film visually appealing.
The acting was'nt bad but sometimes it felt as if some actors worked on a routine basis.
Brad Pitt made his Raine into a very uncultivated American 'hooligan' but the best acting bestowed us by Christoph Waltz.
His nazi officer, rude and cultivated at the same time, being a polyglot, was extremely well portrayed.
On the same time there were to many clichées to make this film unique and sometimes I felt like the purpose must have been to make a burlesk slap-stick movie and I'm not sure that this was Tarantinos intention - or maybe I'm wrong?
Most of his films are of course made with a glimpse in the eye and deliberately ironic but was that the intention in this oeuvre, one might ask?
Tarantino hasn't made a really interesting film since Jackie Brown.
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