Inglourious Basterds

World War II. In occupied France, a group of American Jewish soldiers instills fear in the Nazis by brutally killing and scalping soldiers.

“Quentin Tarantino’s seventh film is an attraction of unprecedented generosity. The writer and director has equipped his ‘Inglourious Basterds’ with such a wealth of variously coded information that hardly a single intellectual cinephile on either side of the Atlantic could fully grasp it. It’s incredible how he managed to organize all this in his own mind while simultaneously creating a film that is structurally coherent and logically evolving, but it’s no wonder he worked on the script for about ten years.

As a result, we have a hyperfilm, a gigantic cinematic tree with multiple fluctuations, and this is not just a sprawling decorative cliché but a meticulously thought-out construct. However, even if mastering this complex organization is unlikely to be fully achieved by anyone, every viewer is guaranteed to derive pleasure from recognition, as if entering into an intimate conspiracy with the author.” (“The Art of Cinema”)