CANNES: Quentin Tarantino stormed into Cannes Tuesday with “Once Upon a Time In Hollywood”, which critics at the world´s biggest film festival hailed as his best movie in years.
the maverick director returned with “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” receiving a six-minute standing ovation at Tuesday’s glittering premiere.
They heaped praise on the dark Tinseltown fairytale set in the Los Angeles of 1969 starring Leonardo DiCaprio as a television Western star on the slide and Brad Pitt as his stunt double.
Twenty-five years after the American director won Cannes´ top Palme d´Or prize for “Pulp Fiction”, he got some of his best reviews since “Jackie Brown” in 1997.
Instead of superheroes or intellectual property, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood will instead bank on the draw of Tarantino and his two movie stars. Margot Robbie also co-stars as Sharon Tate.
Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood is due to hit theatres on July 26.
