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The Oscar nominated film sets out to showcase the darkest parts of Hollywood during the 1920s, but how much of the film is based on reality?
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The Oscar nominated film sets out to showcase the darkest parts of Hollywood during the 1920s, but how much of the film is based on reality?
From the comic to the simply tragic, stories from Tinseltown's early years put Margot Robbie's new film in the shade
BRIAN VINER: The late 1920s in Hollywood was a time of self-indulgent excess. It is fitting, though not deliberate, that Damien Chazelle's Babylon is wide open to the same charge.
Alternating between its two modes – rollicking satire and elegiac reflection – with whiplash abandon, Damien Chazelle’s three-hour extravaganza, charting Hollywood’s transition to the talkies, is an overstuffed mess.
Chazelle’s three-plus hour extravaganza isn’t the dutiful, nostalgic ode you might expect of such a Tinseltown period piece