A little while ago we brought you the teaser trailer for Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming film, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Since then, the full-length trailer has been released, and the critics who have had a peek at the film are falling over themselves to sing its praises.

The Guardian describes it as a “black-comedy thriller” that “finds a pulp-fictionally redemptive take on the Manson nightmare in late-60s California”.

In true Tarantino style, the film is both shocking and intriguing. It follows a failing TV actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and a stuntman (Brad Pitt) who cross paths with the Manson cult.

The Los Angeles of 1969 is recovered with all Tarantino’s habitual intensity and delirious, hysterical connoisseurship of pop culture detail. But there’s something new here: not just erotic cinephilia, but TV-philia, an intense awareness of the small screen background to everyone’s lives.

Opinions are going to divide about this film’s startling and spectacularly provocative ending, which Tarantino is concerned to keep secret and which I have no intention of revealing here. But certainly any ostensible error of taste is nothing like, say, those in the much admired Inglourious Basterds. And maybe worrying about taste is to miss the point of this bizarre Jacobean horror fantasy.

Check out the trailer:

They finish their five-star review by saying the movie is “entirely outrageous, disorientating, irresponsible, and also brilliant”.

Look out for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood in theatres mid-August.

[source:guardian]