 merrie says: you can be sure it's Tarantino the director that's always the star. Indeed, when we meet, at the Cannes Film Festival, he's wearing a tuxedo with a rose tucked in the lapel" at 10.30 in the morning. "I know they're going to take photos of me, so I'm going to look sassy," he says, with the vanity one normally associates with actors. If the 46-year-old director is still hanging on to that celebrity status bestowed on ' him by his debut film, Reservoir Dogs, and its iconic, Palme d'Or-winning follow-up Pulp Fiction, it's by his fingertips. His last film, 2007's Death Proof, was a flop. But before the week of the festival is out, the Inglourious Basterds star Christoph Waltz (whom Tarantino dubs his "partner in crime") will take the Best Actor award. The veteran actor, little-known outside Germany and Austria, plays Colonel Hans Landa, a Nazi known as "the Jew Hunter" and what Waltz calls "with a hyperbolic flourish that matches Tarantino's own -- – “the part of the century”. If it’s not quite that, Waltz’s performance – in four languages – is certainly the compelling centrepiece of Tarantino’s largest ensemble cast to date. Relishing every syllable of the dialogue, he eclipses the better-known players – notably Brad Pitt, starring as the leader of the titular group of US-Jewish mercenaries, whose plans to scalp Nazis collide with those of Shosanna (Mélanie Laurent), a Jewish cinema-owner seeking vengeance on Landa for murdering her family. The French starlet Laurent is another find. According to Tarantino, she “has that gift that only a few actors have: she can think a thought and you can see it on her face”. Release Date: 21 Aug... |
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