Tarantino's 35mm eulogy of a bygone era in the Tinseltown

Rating: 8/10 (19 August 2019)

Quentin Tarantino's 9th feature film, ONCE UPON A TIME... IN HOLLYWOOD headlines two biggest current Hollywood matinee stars for their first collaboration, DiCaprio plays a washed-up actor Rick Dalton and Pitt is his former stunt double and current chauffeur, Cliff Booth, in the twilight of Hollywood's Golden Age and the year is 1969, also notoriously for the Manson Family murder of Sharon Tate (1943-69), Roman Polanski's pregnant wife, and her friends.
By drawing on his facility of slasher to tackle the real-life grisly tragedy, Tarantino cunningly promises his votaries a bloodbath that prowls like the elephant in the room with its looming premonition (not least the final countdown of that ghastly night), which is unexpectedly deflected into a brutal house invasion where the preordained positions of victims and victimizers are ingeniously swapped, and comes off far...
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