FRANCE: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Quentin Tarantino arrive for the world premiere of "Inglorious Basterds" in Cannes

Record ID: 477221

  • Title: FRANCE: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, and Quentin Tarantino arrive for the world premiere of "Inglorious Basterds" in Cannes
  • Date: 21st May 2009
  • Summary: CANNES, FRANCE (MAY 20, 2009) (REUTERS) PHOTOGRAPHERS ENGLISH ACTOR ROBERT PATTINSON HAVING PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN CAMERAS PATTINSON EXTERIOR OF PALAIS CHINESE ACTRESS ZIYI ZHANG RED CARPET CAMERAS ZHANG CAMERAS CHINESE ACTRESS MICHELLE YEOH POSING FOR PICTURES RED CARPET BURLESQUE DANCER DITA VON TEESE SHARON STONE BRAD PITT SIGNING AUTOGRAPHS ANGELINA JOLIE ARR
  • Embargoed: 5th June 2009 13:00
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  • Location: France
  • Country: France
  • Reuters ID: LVACD3LU4MQRJHZ9ZM6W59L6GS01
  • Story Text: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie hit the Red Carpet in Cannes on Wednesday (May 20) for the premiere of Quentin Tarantino's "Inglorious Basterds".
    Along with Tarantino and the cast and crew of the movie, the couple happily signed autographs.
    Tarantino was visibly excited for his latest venture to premiere in front of the most star-studded audience the Film Festival had seen so far.
    The U.S. director rolls a Western, gangster flick and wartime caper into one in "Inglourious Basterds", Pitt as the leader of a ruthless gang of Nazi-slayers. So fearsome is the band of Jewish-American "Basterds" that Adolf Hitler himself comes to hear of them, and the predictably violent and action-packed narrative weaves real life figures into a riotous plot that re-writes history.
    Most of the dialogue is in German and French and translated with subtitles, possibly limiting the film's box office potential in the United States.
    But at the Cannes film festival, where Tarantino's picture is in the main competition, there was warm applause after a press screening.
    Tarantino declined to explain why he inserted spelling mistakes into the title of his film, borrowed from Italian director Enzo Castellari's 1978 picture "Inglorious Bastards".
    The narrative opens in the first year of the German occupation of France, where character Shosanna Dreyfus witnesses the execution of her family at the hands of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa, flamboyantly played by Christoph Waltz.
    Elsewhere in Europe, Pitt's character Aldo Raine forms a group of Jewish-American soldiers charged with scalping their Nazi victims, and so successful are they that Hitler comes to fear them.
    Diane Kruger plays a famous German actress who is also an undercover agent on a mission to take down the leaders of the Third Reich -- the strands converge on a small Parisian cinema where history is turned on its head in an explosive climax.
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