«Inglourious Basterds», history and cinema according to Tarantino

Le Regard Libre N° 64 - Jonas Follonier

Quentin Tarantino special report

Inglourious Basterds is a rather special film in Quentin Tarantino's filmography. Apart, because the story is rooted in the much-touted context of the Second World War. Apart, because - warning, disclosers - a very famous big bad gets whacked. Precisely because of this «risk» of wanting to play with this moment in the twentieth century, Jean-Luc Douin of Le Monde once asked: «How far can historical sacrilege go, and at what risk?» Some people, when I asked them what they thought of this film, made similar remarks. It seems to me that to dispel this restraint and enjoy the film without feeling ashamed of it, we need to understand Tarantino's approach in all his films. An approach in which cinema c