This is no A Star is Born-esque showbiz drama, however. The third pivotal character here is actress Sharon Tate, a beauty whose star is on the rise even as Rick’s is on the decline. Cliff is in many ways a more interesting and complex character than the narcissistic and fragile Rick, but DiCaprio and Pitt share a breezy, boozy chemistry that makes them great foils for one another. Cliff may project a Zen-like chill but there’s a coiled intensity lurking under the surface that speaks to the violence he’s capable of committing.
Rick is deftly played with feverish desperation and crumbling vanity by Leonardo DiCaprio, while an almost transcendently cool Brad Pitt delivers his best performance in years as Cliff, whose sun-kissed appearance belies the inner darkness that’s cost him everything but the affection of his dog and Rick. Tarantino largely focuses his story - which is primarily set over three days in Hollywood circa 1969 - on washed-up actor Rick Dalton and his best pal, former stunt double-turned-flunky, Cliff Booth. Perhaps it’s because he’s set a retirement goal for himself with his tenth film that Tarantino leans so heavily into nostalgia here, staging a last hurrah for a breed of aging Hollywood types out of step with their times. There’s still an undeniable coolness -there’s that word again! - exuded throughout this film, but like an older man, it moves a bit slower, is more contemplative and mindful of the end being nigh, and struggles with things not being the way they were back in the day.
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The movie reflects the sensibilities of an older and possibly more thoughtful filmmaker than the indie bad boy who stormed the industry back in the ‘90s with his “cool criminal” fare like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
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