“Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood” is as much of a fairytale as its title implies
EVERY ONE of Quentin Tarantino’s films has been a love letter to pop culture in general and to cinema in particular, but none of those odes has been as explicit or as gushing as “Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood”. A two-and-three-quarter-hour tribute to Tinseltown, the film is a loosely bound anthology of vignettes extolling the charms of the dream factory as it was in 1969: the cars, the clothes, the on-set camaraderie.
That is typical of the film’s mellow mood. Early on, an agent tries to persuade Rick to make spaghetti westerns in Italy, but he has to be the kindest and most honest agent who has ever been portrayed on screen. Roman Polanski moves in next door to Rick with his starlet wife, the aforementioned Tate .
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