After winning the Oscar (at least one of them) with ‘The City of Stars: La La Land’, Damien Chazelle took us to outer space with ‘First Man’ and now transports us to the dawn of Hollywood with ‘ Babylon’, with Margot Robbie, Tobey Maguire, Brad Pitt and Diego Calva. The film opens December 23 in the United States and Canada. and in Spain we will be able to see it from January 20, but there has already been a special screening at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills this Monday, November 14th.
Early reactions to the screening’s release were far from unanimous, with reviews ranging from epic to monstrous. “Babylon” is an epic that lasts 3 hours and 8 minutes with influences as varied as Federico Fellini’s “La dolce vita” or “The Godfather” by Francis Ford Coppola. A story of ambition and excess that traces the rise and fall of various characters in an age of rampant decadence and depravity. For Clayton Davis by variety, “‘Babylon’ is like Damien Chazelle reading ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’ and then saying ‘hold my beer!’ Cocaine Inducing High Voltage Trip”; while ryan swen of LAFCA says it is “Truly monstrous in its insistent insistence on putting the viewer’s face in the mud and claiming it is something new or moving.” As you can see everything is there, what hasn’t been fixed is a precise date for the lifting of the embargo on total criticism.
Extravagant, decadent and all together delightfully delicious. @babylonmovie it’s a phenomenal film. This is Damien Chazelle’s love letter to film and Margot Robbie’s best performance to date. The score is outstanding. pic.twitter.com/86zpBANE8D
? Jazz Tangcay (@jazzt) November 15, 2022
“Wacky, decadent and all together deliciously delicious. ‘Babylon’ is phenomenal. This is Damien Chazelle’s love letter to cinema and Margot Robbie’s best performance to date. The score is outstanding.”
Babylon is a fever dream of a movie that is at its best when it’s straight comedy. The drama barely unfolds. Pitt and Jovan Adepo give the best performances in the film. Robbie gives it his all, but the character is so one note. I did not like it.
? Gregory Ellwood-The playlist? (@TheGregoryE) November 15, 2022
“’Babylon’ is a fever dream of a movie that’s at its best when it’s truly a comedy. The drama barely picks up. Pitt and Jovan Adepo give the best performances in the movie. . I didn’t love it.
Damien Chazelle brings buckets of energy to BABYLON, but he’s never pounding, obvious, and ultimately short-sighted. Is everything borrowed? even down to Tobey Maguire who stole the movie as Alfred Molina. A film about Scorsese’s coke from a perfectly clean director.
? Joshua Rothkopf (@joshuarothkopf) November 15, 2022
“Damien Chazelle brings buckets of energy to ‘Babylon,’ but it never fails to be pulse-pounding, obvious, and ultimately boring. Everything is borrowed, even Tobey Maguire steals the show as Alfred Molina. UA film about Scorsese’s coca-cola from a perfectly clean director”.
By Damien Chazelle #BabylonMovie it is a dazzling, dizzying cacophony of demented depravity. ??d! A rebellious and outrageous portrayal of the hedonistic Hollywood of the Golden Era. Margot Robbie is a live wire. Diego Calva is sensational. Awe inducing costumes and sets. pic.twitter.com/tzDRZgMKvN
? Courtney Howard (@Lulamaybelle) November 15, 2022
“Damien Chazelle’s ‘Babylon’ is a dazzling, dizzying cacophony of crazed depravity. A rebellious and outrageous portrait of hedonistic Golden Age Hollywood. Margot Robbie is pure energy. Diego Calva is sensational. Stunning costumes and sets. ”
Babylon is an ambitious mess of a film. I don’t even know where to start with this one, but the tone is all over the place. Margot Robbie tries but the script fails. A love letter to cinema that made me hate cinema. #BabylonMovie pic.twitter.com/BnKQiOz2Zd
? Scott Menzel (@ScottDMenzel) November 15, 2022
“‘Babylon’ is an ambitious and disastrous film. I don’t even know where to start, but the tone is all over the place. Margot Robbie tries, but the script fails. A love letter to cinema that made me hate cinema”.
the good summary
A bullet of intoxicated Margot Robbie vomiting all over the face of a stuffy old man in a tuxedo pretty much sums up the chaotic energy and glorious mess of BABYLON, truly the weirdest, most debauched love letter to Hollywood ever.
? Kevin Powy (@djkevlar) November 15, 2022
“A cocaine-enhanced Margot Robbie bullet spewing into the face of a stiff-necked old man in a business suit pretty much sums up the chaotic energy and glorious mess of ‘Babylon,’ truly the strangest and most tumultuous love letter in Hollywood .”
‘Babylon’ hits theaters January 20. The screenplay is written by Chazelle himself and the cast is completed by Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li, Jean Smart, Lukas Haas, Olivia Hamilton, Max Minghella, Rory Scovel and Katherine Waterston.
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