After more than twenty years of career and nine films, Quentin Tarantino is about to retire with his latest project, The Movie Critic.
After almost four years of waiting since his last film, the excellent Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood the movie show, the famous filmmaker may well retire from the set once and for all. Indeed, Tarantino has long claimed that his tenth feature-length film would be the last of his film career, in order to better leave to his cinema fans the memory of a simultaneously concise and effective filmography.
The mystery surrounding this famous new project has long remained intact. In the meantime, the filmmaker has started writing, publishing a novel in the world of his latest film, and more recently, an essay entitled Cinema Speculations. It was also announced that Tarantino was considering launching its film series, although no further information on the subject has been released since. Without knowing more about this company, a first veil was finally lifted on the long awaited tenth film.
Currently in development under the provisional title The Movie Critic, the feature drama film should take place in the Los Angeles of the 1970s. While nothing has yet been confirmed in this sense, The Hollywood Reporter speculated that the narrative could be centered around Pauline Kael, one of the most influential film critics of her time.
The latter was particularly known for her sharp criticisms and her rejection of intellectualisation, preferring instead to speak of her sense of spectator. In 2008, Tanratino revealed at the Cannes Film Festival that critics had been like "cinema teachers" when he was still a teenager. The filmmaker’s admiration for Kael could bring rumors closer to reality.
However, it is possible that Sony, which has already distributed the filmmaker’s previous feature-length film, will be attached to the project in the near future. The film is still at a very embryonic stage, nothing has yet been communicated about any casting, or a possible release date.
However, it was already suggested by Tarantino in an interview with Playboy in 2012 that he wanted to direct his last film before becoming too old, arguing that directors generally did not tend to improve over time. With the filmmaker preparing to celebrate his sixtieth birthday this month, it may be reasonable to hope that the film will reach cinemas by 2024.
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