My favorite Tarantino in a while

Rating: 8/10 (14 January 2020)

Dreamy and nostalgic, with two great leads, this is a story walking a thin line between reality and "could have been".
DiCaprio is Rick Dalton, a fictional actor whose time in the limelight is running out. Pitt is his stunt/handyman Cliff Booth. The two share a friendship and wander around in a Hollywood undergoing a disintegration under pressure by the "youth-quake", the hippies and all the political upheaval of the late 60s.
Two lost souls who would have been more at home in the studio system of the preceding decade, Dalton and Booth try to fit in and stay relevant, fail and eventually move to CinecittÃ for some spaghetti westerns.
Back in Hollywood, they get mixed up with hot and upcoming neighbour couple Tate/Polanski and with some nasty hippies.
As in "Inglorious Basterds" the mix of reality and fantasy works out quite well. No major violent scenes, except towards the end, but even there, not what you would expect.