The estimable Vanity Fair has just published a series of lovely portraits from the set of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. Very nice, go see.
Shot by Brigitte Lacombe, the seven shots aren’t stills from the movie; but they do give us some glorious looks at the key players from Tarantino’s balls-out WWII flick, including Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine, Diane Kruger, proving instantly why she was cast as the stunning German actress, Bridget von Hammersmark, Eli Roth as one of the chief Basterds, Donny Donowitz, Melanie Laurent as vengeful Jewish girl, Shosanna and Christopher Waltz as the movie’s nominal villain, Col. Hans Landa, aka The Jew Hunter.
Pitt and Kruger are afforded two shots each, with Kruger posing at one point in front of a poster for a film starring her on-screen character.
Of particular interest, though, might be the black-and-white group shot featuring Tarantino and various members of his cast, including Pitt, Roth, Kruger, Waltz and Laurent. This shot takes place in Shosanna’s Parisian cinema, now draped in Nazi regalia, where the movie’s climax, a chapter that may or may not be called Revenge Of The Giant Face, takes place. And that’s all we’re going to say about that.
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