After defending Joker 2Quentin Tarantino has this time dubbed a Nicolas Cage revenge film as one of the best of the last five years.
Where is Quentin Tarantino really at? Since the release of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood in 2019 (an eternity), it seems stuck. After all, when he was already well advanced in pre-production, Tarantino abandoned The Movie Criticsupposed to be his tenth and final film, in early 2024. Despite his numerous projects, including possible series around the characters of Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth, nothing. In a way, it’s a small early retirement for the American.
He had always said that after his career as a filmmaker, his life would be made up of literature and cinema. Since 2019, he has published two books – Once upon a time in Hollywood (augmented novelization of the film) and the essay Cinema Speculations – and next to it, he discusses cinema. Recently, Quentin Tarantino gave his opinion on Joker 2explained that he would never watch Denis Villeneuve’s Dune or was annoyed by Pixar’s choices around the trilogy Toy Story. More positive this time, he revealed one of his favorite films of recent years.
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Failing to write a script or shoot anything, Quentin Tarantino therefore lists the podcasts broadcast, for example, to Bret Easton Ellis or Bill Maher. And when he’s not invited anywhere, it doesn’t matter, he enjoys his own podcast, The Video Archives Podcast co-hosted with Roger Avary (non-credit screenwriter of Pulp Fiction), to discuss cinema. The two men thus returned to Nicolas Cage and Tarantino then explained that the actor had played in one of the best films of the last five years, as relayed A job :
“Watching some of Nic Cage’s later films, the one that blew me away was the movie Pig. It’s one of the best films of the last five years. This is one of the best films I’ve seen in the last five years. […] He deserves to be proud of it… the guy who made it [Michael Sarnoski, ndlr] did an amazing job.
He did a really, really great job. One of the great things, especially after watching all the revenge-o-matics [film de vengeance, ndlr] What we’ve seen is that Pig features Nic Cage like everything else he’s done in the last five years. It’s obvious, but yet he manages to take this path in the most creative way possible. »
As a reminder, in PigNicolas Cage played a hermit truffle hunter whose sow was kidnapped, which is why he then did everything in place to get her back. The film, directed and written by Michael Sarnoski, was received rather favorably by critics and Most agreed it was one of Nicolas Cage’s best performances for years. From there to say that it is one of the best films of the last five years? Maybe not, but Tarantino also has the right to have his own tastes.
We also know that Tarantino tends to defend body and soul certain “B series” films as he did with Crawl by Alexandre Aja in 2019, his favorite film of the year in question (yes yes, ahead Parasite, Ad Astra, Midsummer or Pain and glory). In any case, if we are to believe Tarantino’s various announcements in the media, Pig so join Top Gun : Maverick, West Side Story and therefore Crawl among the best films of the last five years. Further proof that Tarantino can love anything, as long as it’s cinema.
