![]() ![]() He’s not capturing the past he’s only condescending to it.Ĭhazelle is an ambitious filmmaker, and Babylon is an ambitious picture. ![]() He treats people of this lost era like primitive creatures who just didn’t know any better. ![]() Writer-director Chazelle thinks he’s created a vision of 1920s Hollywood, but no matter how much research he may have done, he hasn’t listened at all to what these faces, these stories, have told him. ![]() Its central character is a narcissist with no complexity, no interior contradictions-not even Margot Robbie, among the most appealing performers we’ve got, can animate her. It advertises its alleged extravagance and glamour, loud and hard, but only comes off looking tinny and cheap. Babylon isn’t a film made with love, or even with any degree of exactitude it pretends to be a movie about “loving movies,” but more than anything else, it seeks to reflect glory on its creator. In a moment of heedless generosity, you could almost commend Damien Chazelle for caring enough about the last days of the silent film era to make a movie about it-if he showed any evidence of caring at all. ![]()
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