The smart money this year was on Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Red. But the jury, headed by Clint Eastwood, went for Quentin Tarantino’s profane, madly inventive, blood-spattered melodrama that revived the career of John Travolta, turned Samuel L. Jackson into an A-list star and set the action-movie tone for the rest of the decade. Tarantino is back this year with another multistar epic, the war film Inglourious Basterds— his first competing film at Cannes since the one that made him famous.
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