Having taken eight years to write, yet only eight months to edit, Quintin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds has finally hit Cannes with a very big bang. After the screening of the most anticipated movie of the festival, press and photographers frantically dashed out doors and up the stairs to wait in line for the arrival of the cast including Brad Pitt, Diane Kruger, Melanie Laurent, Til Schweiger, Eii Roth, and the notorious "Bastereds" director h...

Inglourious Basterds begins in German-occupied France, where Shoshanna Dreyfus (Mélanie Laurent) witnesses the execution of her family at the hand of Nazi Colonel Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz). Shosanna narrowly escapes and flees to Paris, where she forges a new identity as the owner and operator of a cinema. Elsewhere in Europe, Lieutenant Aldo Raine (Brad Pitt) organizes a group of Jewish soldiers to engage in targeted acts of retribution. Known to their enemy as "The Basterds,&qu...