Yesterday Blair and I saw this film. While Quentin Tarantino is not everyone's cup of tea, both of us found this cinematic experience captivating and enjoyed the style in which it was presented. For example, those sequences in which modern music was juxtaposed with this 1940s period piece.
Below is a synopsis of the film, as presented by Wikipedia. Additional information about Inglorious Basterds can be found here.
Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 World War II revenge film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and released in August 2009 by The Weinstein Company and Universal Pictures. It was filmed in several locations, among them Germany and France, beginning in October 2008. The film, set in German-occupied France, tells the story of two plots to assassinate the Nazi German political leadership, one planned by a young French Jewish cinema proprietor, the other by a team of Allied American scalp-hunters.
Tarantino has repeatedly stressed that despite its being a war film, Inglourious Basterds is a "spaghetti western but with World War II iconography". In addition to spaghetti westerns, the film also pays homage to the World War II "macaroni combat" sub-genre (itself heavily influenced by spaghetti-westerns).
Inglourious Basterds was accepted into the main selection at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival in competition for the prestigious Palme d'Or and had its world premiere there in May. It was the only U.S. film to win an award at Cannes that year, earning a Best Actor award for Christoph Waltz.
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