Legendary Strudel

Rating: 7/10 (26 August 2009)

Tarantino is getting more like Mozart - technically brilliant if not quite emotionally mature.
But within minutes you remember that great films derive emotion from the élan of the director. The first chapter of this film can be put besides the opening of Once Upon a Time in the West for bravado film making. Its just two men in a hut, one drinking milk.
We get those cardboard cut out characters of WWII blown up to stunning Technicolour 3D. So much better than Kill Bill, which gave nothing back to the genre it kidnapped.
There has been a lot of osmosis between Tarantino and other artsy directors. Almondovar and Allen seem also to use those detailed digressions and physical incongruities in otherwise well structured films. Yes, Tarantino steals of course but others take note too.
Basterds is pulp, a bit left field and very well made all at once. And again, it appears the director has probably made a new career for a forgotten actor. And a apple desserts.