Between Hollywood and "Babylon", the striking parallel of Damien Chazelle

• A declining actor, an actress on the verge of fame and a young upstart are at the center of “Babylon”.

• Damien Chazelle pulled out all the stops to bring Hollywood back to life in the 1920s.

• This brilliant film allows him to proclaim his love for cinema by directing performers at their best.

Damien Chazelle offers a spectacular journey through time with the impressive

fresco .

He goes back to the beginnings of Hollywood, before the advent of talkies in the 1920s. “It was a real circus, he explains to

.

Morals were free and so were people.

You could find glory but also lose your mind.

What the film demonstrates brilliantly.

Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, already reunited in

by Quentin Tarantino, are dazzling there.

He is dignified and tired as a star on the decline carried on the bottle.

She is bubbly and seductive as an actress on her way to fame.

A cry of love at the cinema

"I've been a movie buff since I was young," says the director of

,

and

.

It took me fifteen years to finalize this project, which aims to show the beginnings of the Hollywood legend, including his excesses.

The tone is set from the start of the film with a mind-blowing orgy scene in the house of a wealthy producer.

From the first images, a young Mexican (Diego Calva, revelation of the film) tries to find his place in this industry which fascinates him to the point of making him forget where he comes from.

“Hollywood quickly sanitized, insists Damien Chazelle, but those years were pure madness, the one that inhabited the artists creating films in the heart of the desert.

Dantesque parties but above all hasty shootings sometimes putting performers and teams in danger are reborn before the eyes of the spectator who has the impression of being at the heart of the history of the 7th Art.

"My film is a cry of love to the cinema and to those who create it", insists Damien Chazelle.

vibrates with its passion for more than three hours of screening.

Yesterday and today

The evolution of cinema finds an echo in that of well-drawn characters, emblematic of an art and an era.

“It is not essential to suffer to succeed, insists Damien Chazelle, but I know artists who have paid a high price and have been crushed by the industry.

My film is about both yesterday and today.

A sumptuous reconstitution and a virtuoso staging make

an aesthetic shock capable of seducing the general public as well as hardcore moviegoers.

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