2009 · drama · war
Inglourious Basterds
Directed by Quentin Tarantino2h 33m2009
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Our read: Inglourious Basterds (2009) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive drama · war entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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Sombre, kinetic, extreme drama / war, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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