What dogs the mostly enjoyable movie is that it is yet another ode to Tinseltown.
At its best, director Damien Chazelle’s latest movie, “Babylon,” is a starry and seductive “Great Gatsby”-esque tale of decadent excess and personal destruction — just swap the Hamptons for Hollywood.
Pitt, exuding the relaxed star power he always does, is a famous-but-fading silent film star named Jack Conrad, who is debonair but daft, wooden and a bit of a cad. Robbie is Nellie LaRoy, a New Jersey rebel with a harsh accent, who wants to make it big in the pictures. She seizes her opportunity at a raucous showbiz party thrown in a mansion at the film’s start.
We then watch Manny, who is madly in love with Nellie, rise through the ranks of the studio system to eventually become a powerful producer. Nellie’s star simultaneously explodes as depressed and aging Jack’s disintegrates. Manny falls for Nellie .The film’s best scene by a mile shows Nellie on the set of her first movie with sound, trying to say lines while walking around. The crew just can’t get a good take in the can. Gaffers sneeze, doors slam, Nellie can’t find her mark under the mike.
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