Solène Delinger 5:02 p.m., March 07, 2023

In 2007, three years after the success of the second part of his "Kill Bill" saga, Quentin Tarantino embarked on the production of a crazy diptych with filmmaker Robert Rodriguez.

But "Boulevard de la mort", the first part, did not find its audience at all...

Quentin Tarantino, one of the most talented filmmakers of his generation, is far from proud of all his filmography... The American director may have several cult films to his credit, such as Pulp Fiction or Kill

Bill

,

but 

he nonetheless very critical of his work.

And, according to him, one film in particular overshadows his incredible track record: 

Boulevard de la Mort,

released in 2007.

Death Boulevard 

features a psychopath who kills women with his car

Boulevard de la Mort 

is the first segment of the crazy diptych

Grindhouse,

the second part of which,

Planet of Terror

, was directed by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez. 

Death Boulevard

features Stuntman Mike, a psychopath who kills women with his car.

Alas, the feature film did not meet its audience.

Released on April 6, 2007 in the United States as a finished product with

Planet of Terror, 

the diptych failed at the box office.

The film producer Harvey Weinstein is therefore forced to review his copy and decides to release the two films separately in other countries. 

"We were a little too sure of ourselves"

For Quentin Tarantino, the spectators were not attracted by his concept imagined with Robert Rodriguez.

"I think Robert Rodriguez and I assumed that people felt pretty close to the concept of dual programs and exploitation films. No, they weren't. Not at all. They didn't have a p ***** idea of ​​what they were watching. What we were doing meant nothing to them. In this specific case, we were a little too sure of ourselves", assured the filmmaker in 2020 in an interview for the American media

Empire.

If

 Death Boulevard

was a failure for Quentin Tarantino, the filmmaker does not hate his film for all that: "I was in London for the promotion of the film before the first weekend of release. I then proposed to Edgar Wright and his friends to go see him on Friday night in Piccadilly. When we walk into the venue there are about 13 people. At the 8.30 p.m. screening on the release day, okay? It was a pretty humbling experience. But we sat down, we watched the movie and we had a good time”, recalls the director.

So no regrets...