Muey buen! Inglourious Basterdos (which is what we’re insisting on calling it this week) opened the 57th San Sebastian film festival yesterday and LWLies jetted out to soak up the Spanish heat with Tarantino and Brad Pitt.
Well, that was the idea. Instead the bright, beautiful costal Spanish town suddenly turned into the last scene of Titanic. The raining was hammering hard when LWLies touched down. And it just kept pouring.
Tarantino, though, has landed sunny-side up once again. After a mixed reception at the Cannes film festival, QT has snubbed critics (like us) who hoped for a leaner, tastier edit of his cartoony World War II romper.
He’s chopped out some of the best bits of the film (including parts of The Jew Hunter’s stunning opening scene), he’s stuck in some more Basterds plotting (but not enough to matter) and he’s kept the movie overrunning to a saggy, baggy 153 minutes.
But from the reaction at San Sebastian, QT looks to have a big hit on his hands in Europe: the jokes about continental relations between France, Italy and Germany had the Spanish critics roaring with laughter.
Brad Pitt splashed some glam on San Seb by rocking up for the press conference and continuing to hint at a prequel. For once, though, QT’s banana-chin refused to start flapping about his next project.
Perhaps as an incentive, one member of the press bizarrely offered the director a large purple dildo. Tarantino politely declined – and stayed schtum about Basterds 2. More news when we get it…
