Damien Chazelle thinks that’s a good thing Babylonwho is a co-star Brad Pitt and Margot Robbie, divided the audience. “More movies should do this,” said the director of La La Land. Chazelle has also clarified that he pays no attention to the critical reception of his films after release, believing it becomes “the audience’s” film.

Since it broke out with psychological jazz drama flick in 2014, Damien Chazelle was a constant critical darling, as with the aforementioned La La Landwhich won 6 Academy Awards, including his own for Best Director, receiving praise from pundits and many accolades.

But his most recent film, Babylon, is a completely different story, with some critics hailing it as a masterpiece and others as an unmitigated disaster. And according to Chazelle, while making the film he knew it would provoke a polarized response.

“It’s nice to have something to spark conversation and debate and lots of fierce opinions on both sides. We all knew the movie was going to stir up some critics and piss off some people, and I think that’s a good thing,” Chazelle said. insiders in an interview ahead of the film’s January 20 UK release. “More movies should do this.”

Now, Babylon it has a 55 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, though the film also managed to garner several nominations from bodies including the Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Critics’ Choice Movie Awards. The period film Old Hollywood starring Margot Robbie, Brad Pitt and Diego Calva was also a box office hit, grossing less than $15 million against a $78 million production budget.

Pitt plays a successful Hollywood silent film actor and Margot Robbie, an aspiring star.

David Erlich of indiewiregave the film a mixed review, calling it a “silly Caligula ode to the early days of Hollywood”, which “reminds us that movies have been dying for over 100 years, and then, with their hearts exploding, take it as edifying proof that they’re really going to live forever. He has no idea how movies are going to do that, or where the hell they might go from here.”

no to criticism

However, chances are Chazelle didn’t read the review by indiewiresince he also said insiders who prefers not to pay attention to the reaction his film generates after its release, preferring it to become the film of the “audience”.

“It’s an interesting thing, where you do something, and then I think it becomes, once the director finishes the film, the audience, and that includes the critics, it includes everyone. And everyone will have a different view of the film. And I think they’re all legitimate,” Chazelle said. fine, but I think at some point a film represents a moment in time and a moment in history.”

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