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Film review: Inglourious Basterds   Tarantino and Pitt sign
autographs for fans in Cannes  By Emma Jones BBC News reporter
in Cannes  Quentin Tarantino has made an eye-catching return to
the Cannes Film Festival with Inglourious Basterds, an epic
World War II movie set in Nazi-occupied France.  Tarantino swaps
fact for pulp fiction in Inglourious Basterds, a comic revenge
fantasy about Jewish freedom fighters bringing down the Nazis in
1944.  Brad Pitt plays Lieutenant Aldo Raine, the leader of a
gang of Jewish-American soldiers operating in occupied France
whose self-proclaimed mission is "to kill as many Nazis as
possible".  They succeed in Tarantino's usual grisly-comic
fashion, carving swastikas into the foreheads of any German
soldier they do not scalp.  The plot culminates with an attempt
to incinerate the Nazi high command - including Hitler, Goebbels
and Goering - at a film premiere in Paris.  It's western meets
war movie, with David Bow