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From: films and music Category: Films Date: 23 September 2007 Time: 05:36 AM Review: Tarantino is a real artist. When you saw him being interviewed by Jonathan Ross, it became clear that all his weird dialogue and people,especially women, chatting, is not just some phony tactical coolness, but an essential part of himself. His films since Pulp Fiction have been a bit boring, and death proof in its elaborate referentiality, so close to contemporary art, does not disappoint with its lack of entertainment. A whole load of chat followed by a chase, more chat, followed by another chase. The end. And yet you feel everthing is very very carefully considered, many of the elements have some beauty to them in look and sound. But because the story is secondary, because you are not remotely magicked into caring for the characters, because it is all abstract, you do not engage and you wish it would end. It seems amazing that such films as this can be made in Hollywood, the surface levels of sexploitation-car-chase movie, and Tarantino's previous successes, blinded the bigwigs to the fact QT was making a very expensive art video.